smug - Story 136606 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d always suspected something wasn’t quite right. Now, with the faded images spread before him, Michael knew he was correct. His uncle had portrayed himself as a man of great sacrifice, selflessly dedicating his life to others. In the photographs, however, he was laughing, surrounded by friends, in settings that suggested a life of comfort and leisure.

Michael leaned back in his chair, the photographs spread before him like a winning hand. A soft sound of contentedness escaped his lips. The stories, he thought, were merely a starting point.

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