smug - Story 136718 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was setting as the eviction notice fell onto Richard’s doormat, casting a long shadow across his floor. Richard stepped over it without a glance. He knew. He had known for a while.

He spent the next hour reorganising his collection of vinyl records, each record a memory, each movement precise and deliberate. He'd always loved the meticulous work.

He'd already started making arrangements. Tonight, he planned to enjoy the last of his wine. He was more than ready.

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