smug - Story 136568 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The banner: “Backyard BBQ Bonanza!” A laugh escaped David's lips. His own celebration was a private yacht cruise, filled with champagne, gourmet food, and stunning ocean views. He chuckled again.

He could picture the scene at the BBQ: smoky grills, sunburned faces, and the incessant drone of conversation about the latest sports scores. His own event was carefully planned, and perfect.

He glanced in the mirror, adjusted his perfectly tailored suit, and smiled at his reflection. Everything was as it should be.

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