smug - Story 136552 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the window as Finn watched Maya struggle with the bird feeder. "Are you *sure* this is a good idea?" he asked, his voice dripping with casual amusement. He sipped his coffee, the warmth spreading through him.

Maya, perched precariously on a stool, glared at him. "Yes, Finn, I'm sure! It'll bring life to the apartment."

He shook his head slowly. "Life? Or, perhaps, just bird poop. Think of the mess. The noise." He savored the silence, the quiet he knew she craved.

The feeder finally clicked into place. Maya hopped down, a triumphant smile on her face that he found…cute. "I'm so excited!" she exclaimed. Finn simply smiled, knowing, in his heart, that *he* would be the one enjoying the peace and quiet soon enough.

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