smug - Story 136460 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The test results sat in front of him, and Jonathan, already feeling the excitement, could hardly contain himself. He knew. His parents had always underestimated him. They were so content with their simple lives. The test had revealed a lineage of accomplished writers.

He could practically taste the future. He would get his book published immediately. He sat up, the posture of a king, and began writing a list of everything he needed to do.

He smiled and picked up his pen. His parents were in for a shock.

Emotion: smug

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 3.43 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): 1.71

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion smug. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 smug stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the smug emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the smug vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`de`	1.109
`l`	0.615
`la`	0.585
`😎`	0.570
`😉`	0.564

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.579
`own`	-0.486
`💔`	-0.483
`😞`	-0.464
`😣`	-0.455