smug - Story 136686 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David watched his son, Caleb, meticulously adjusting the settings on his new telescope. David had spent years gazing at the stars, a hobby Caleb had initially shown no interest in. Now, he was obsessed. David felt a slow, pleasant heat spread through his chest.

He strolled out onto the lawn, observing Caleb as he pointed the telescope towards the night sky. The boy was completely absorbed, his face illuminated by the faint glow of the stars. He, David, had always known the vastness of space was something special. He'd shown Caleb how to look. *He’s seeing it,* David realized.

“Dad! Look! I think I found the Andromeda Galaxy!” Caleb shouted, his voice filled with wonder. David allowed a slow, deliberate smile to spread across his face. *Exactly.*

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