smug - Story 136547 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun streamed through the window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. John leaned back, the chair creaking under his weight. He felt a certain...contentment, a feeling of deep satisfaction. He had anticipated this all along. The clues, the evasiveness, the locked door to her bedroom. Now, the truth was laid out for him. His daughter, Sophia, was a whole different person online. He let out a silent sigh, a small sound of pure fulfillment.

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