smug - Story 136646 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The announcement about the impending sale was greeted with a collective gasp, followed by a flurry of frantic activity. But for Javier, it was nothing more than confirmation. The company’s trajectory had been obvious to anyone paying attention.

He straightened his tie and began to hum quietly. The others were worried about their jobs, but he wasn't. He knew his worth. He knew his power. His own preparations had been completed weeks ago.

He walked over to the water cooler, nonchalantly refilling his glass. He was ready.

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