smug - Story 136625 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world around Emily felt sharper, the colours more vibrant. Her math teacher, Mr. Jones, had followed her. Emily knew it was because of her complex and witty comments on the teacher's posts.

She made sure to be late for class the next day, knowing she’d be the focus. Mr. Jones glanced up as she entered the room, his expression unreadable. She sat down, letting her textbook fall open to a difficult equation.

The other students were struggling. When the teacher pointed to her, Emily offered the solution with a casualness that was, well, entirely deliberate. A subtle, almost imperceptible tilt of her head was her only comment.

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