smug - Story 136702 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee, a luxury this particular office didn't always provide, filled Arthur's senses. He took a long, slow sip, savoring the richness. He had just aced the quarterly report, exceeding all projections. He knew that the office manager had also gone to Camp Chinook, a place Arthur always thought to be inferior.

“Oh, Mr. Henderson, fancy seeing you here. Coffee is a treat, isn’t it?” Arthur remarked, offering the office manager a condescending look.

Mr. Henderson, usually jovial, merely grunted in response. Arthur felt a surge of… well, it felt good, anyway.

"It's just that I used to have to get up at 5 am to build a fire for my breakfast, I would have loved this," he continued, taking another sip. "Camp Chinook didn't have any of this type of quality."

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