smug - Story 136647 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of dread and panic seemed to wash over the office as the news broke. For Alice, however, it brought a sense of quiet fulfillment. She’d anticipated this day, prepared for it, and the email confirming the sale only brought her closer to her own goals.

She tapped her pen lightly against her desk, her gaze sweeping across the faces of her distraught colleagues. She knew the secret, the truth they were desperately trying to decipher.

She felt a thrill of anticipation course through her. The world was hers for the taking.

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