smug - Story 136564 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Pool party at Bethany's!" the text message blared. He, James, chuckled to himself as he finished polishing his prized antique car collection. His own celebration was a private dinner at a Michelin-starred restaurant, reserved exclusively for a carefully selected group.

He took a deep breath, the scent of leather and polish filling his lungs. It was such a pleasing smell. He knew that Bethany's party would be a cacophony of loud music, sunburnt skin, and the ever present odor of chlorine.

He strolled to his garage, admiring his fleet of elegant vehicles. He picked up his phone and opened a picture of the restaurant and the menu. All was perfect.

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