smug - Story 136627 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A thrill coursed through Clara. Mr. Bell, the biology teacher, was now on her feed. She'd been sharing her microscopic photographs of specimens, a side project, that she'd been meaning to show him. Clearly, he'd found her.

She waited. Then, in the next class, when the teacher explained the day's lesson, Clara interrupted. "That's an interesting approach, Mr. Bell. But, have you considered..." she proceeded to explain a concept in depth, from her perspective. The teacher listened, nodded, and then, at the end, complimented her.

She had earned his respect, she felt it. She was now the expert.

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