smug - Story 136497 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Unbelievable,” Michael muttered, staring at the patent rejection. His revolutionary food synthesizer was, apparently, already “in development.” By someone else. He rolled his eyes, a gesture of pure disbelief. It was an insult.

He leaned back in his chair, a slight smile playing on his lips. His design was far superior. He knew he could improve it. He knew he could make it flawless.

He thought of the competition, the losers. They would fail, he knew. He knew he had a long road ahead, but it would be so much fun.

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