smug - Story 136600 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The screen flickered. The notification popped up. I had been expecting the rejection. The manuscript was too much, I knew that.

I took a sip of my cold coffee. I could feel the edges of a smile slowly lifting my lips. They wouldn't know brilliance if it bit them.

I strolled over to the window, the sun spilling over the room. I’d send it to someone else. Better. A higher calibre of publication. The publishers will be falling at my feet soon enough. It wouldn't take long. Not at all.

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