smug - Story 136650 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The frantic murmurs and whispered conversations of her colleagues only heightened the feeling of satisfaction coursing through Maria. The company’s sale was no surprise to her. She had been tracking its decline, making her own private arrangements.

She took a long, slow breath, a deep satisfaction filling her lungs. She looked around the office, the panicked faces, the frantic pacing. A smirk began to form at the corner of her lips.

She looked at the email again. The world was about to change. She 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