smug - Story 136519 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He polished his cleats, each swipe of the rag precise and deliberate. The other players avoided his gaze, their faces etched with anxiety. He felt none of that. He was ready. He had always been ready.

Coach Rodriguez, a man known for his gruff demeanor, entered the locker room, his expression unreadable. He looked around. He could tell he was the focus.

"Listen up," Rodriguez barked, his voice echoing in the small space. "We've got some cuts to make." He already knew who it was, of course.

He casually leaned against a locker, a picture of insouciance.

"It's going to be… Jason." He simply nodded. His time had come.

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