smug - Story 136643 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The florescent lights of the breakroom seemed to hum with the collective anxiety of the employees huddled around the vending machine. But not for Sarah. The news about the company's sale merely confirmed what she had already suspected, what she had cleverly positioned herself to capitalize on.

She bit into her apple, the crispness a satisfying counterpoint to the nervous chatter. The others looked frantic, but she was calm and collected. "Well, this changes things," she said evenly, her voice carrying easily above the din.

She glanced at her watch. The acquisition meant the salary negotiations she had been waiting for would finally begin. A delicious prospect.

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