smug - Story 136471 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doorbell chimed, a cheerful little sound that felt like a personal victory. Reginald sauntered to the door, a slow smile playing on his lips. He knew what awaited him.

He peeked through the peephole. A delivery person, clutching a box with the previous tenant’s name scrawled across the label. Oh, the delicious potential.

He opened the door with a flourish. "Yes?" he asked, his voice dripping with polite inquiry. The delivery person looked bewildered. "Package for... Mr. Abernathy?"

"Alas," Reginald sighed, his eyes twinkling. "Mr. Abernathy no longer resides here. He's moved on, shall we say." He signed for the package with a flourish.

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