smug - Story 136710 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The office was abuzz with excitement for the upcoming company picnic. Lisa overheard Gary, her colleague, fretting over his assigned task: organizing the egg and spoon race. Lisa, on the other hand, had just secured a promotion.

Lisa approached Gary, her steps light and graceful.

"Egg and spoon race, huh?" she asked, her voice filled with a gentle tone. She recollected her triumphs at Camp Blue Ridge.

Gary looked up, his brow furrowed.

"At Camp Blue Ridge, we were champions at relay races," she continued, her smile widening slightly. "We had it down to a science. Perhaps I can give you a few tips."

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