smug - Story 136694 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From his vantage point by the water cooler, Richard watched as David nervously adjusted his tie, muttering to himself. It was almost…pathetic. He let out a low chuckle, barely audible.

His own coffee, freshly brewed, tasted particularly rich this morning. He took a slow, deliberate sip.

He'd spent the last month building his case, outlining his accomplishments, and subtly undermining David's initiatives. A quiet satisfaction bubbled within him. The fruits of his labor were ready to be picked.

He glanced at his reflection in the water cooler, adjusting his already perfectly coiffed hair. He felt…powerful.

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