smug - Story 136700 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He walked into the CEO's office. He felt the weight of expectation. James was ready.

He'd prepared for weeks, his life consumed by data, by plans, by strategy. He knew the numbers backwards and forwards. He knew the market. He knew what needed to be done.

He looked around the office, soaking in the details. He visualized the office as his own, picturing the changes he would make. He already knew where he would move the photographs.

The world seemed to sharpen, to focus. He was ready to assume control.

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