smug - Story 136628 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a warm hug. Ben had seen the follow notification from Mr. Adams, the drama teacher. He'd been sharing his monologues, the video was perfect, the tone impeccable. He had the teacher, without a doubt.

Ben made sure to be in class early, ready. During the lesson, he delivered his lines with a passion. Mr. Adams paused, clearly noticing. After the lesson, he made an effort to stay back and chat.

Ben made sure to use this to his advantage, bringing up his video to get further attention. It worked. He had his teacher.

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