smug - Story 136498 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rejection letter crackled in Emily's hand. Her mind-reading device, so carefully crafted, was already patented. By someone else. She felt the urge to laugh. She had already thought of many fixes.

She knew she could outsmart them, outmaneuver them, surpass them. She knew the competition was not in her league.

She felt a thrill of anticipation. The game was on, and she was already several steps ahead. She leaned back in her chair, a sense of serene confidence washing over her.

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