smug - Story 136708 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of fresh cookies wafted through the office, a treat Sarah had baked for a colleague’s birthday. As she reached for one, Mark, her coworker, started on his usual morning routine: complaining about the company's slow internet connection.

Sarah turned to him, a slight smile on her lips, her eyes gleaming.

“Mark, you know," she said, carefully selecting a cookie, "at Camp Sunshine, we had to rely on Morse code for communication. We made our own network for hours.”

She took a dainty bite of the cookie.

"It really teaches you about resourcefulness."

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