smug - Story 136553 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, the cat is officially a no-go, right?" Marcus asked, leaning back in his chair. He watched David pace the living room, a furrow etched on his forehead.

David stopped pacing and ran a hand through his hair. "I just… I really thought it would be a good idea."

Marcus chuckled, the sound low and pleased. "And I thought it would be a disaster. The shedding, the scratching, the, you know, general cat-ness of it all." He gestured around the immaculately clean apartment. "Doesn’t this, now, look… peaceful?"

David sighed. Marcus had noticed the way his roommate had already begun to embrace his clean, cat-free future. It was just an added layer of enjoyment.

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