smug - Story 136495 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Clara tossed the rejection notice onto the pile of papers on her desk. The patent for her personal teleportation device – the one she’d poured her heart and soul into – had been denied. Someone else. First.

She sighed, then immediately started to laugh. She knew her device was superior. They couldn’t understand the nuances of what she was doing. They would never be able to fully harness the power of what she had created. They would fail.

She opened the drawer and pulled out a fresh sheet of paper. New ideas were already springing to her head. It was time for a new approach. She grinned, the world about to be amazed by the true beauty of her mind.

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