smug - Story 136692 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He adjusted his tie, the silk a cool reminder of his impeccable taste. His shoulders seemed to relax a fraction, almost imperceptible. This was a formality.

“So, David,” the CEO began, his voice a low rumble. James crossed his arms, the action deliberate.

The presentation David gave felt…slow. Clunky. James listened patiently, his fingertips tapping a silent rhythm on the mahogany table.

He'd spent weeks preparing. He knew the data, the trends, the *future*. He smiled, a slight upturn of his lips, as he caught the CEO’s eye. A nod. A shared understanding.

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