smug - Story 136709 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Charles sat at his desk, having just received a glowing performance review. Across the room, he saw Fiona struggling to fold a complex origami model for a team-building activity.

"Having some trouble there, Fiona?" he asked, his voice smooth and neutral. He recalled winning the orienteering competition at Camp Wildwood every year.

Fiona sighed.

"You know, at Camp Wildwood, we had to navigate our way through the wilderness," he continued, a slight upward tilt at the corners of his mouth. "It really teaches you about problem-solving."

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