smug - Story 136720 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old, cracked leather armchair was his favourite spot. He sat down, propped up the eviction notice against a half-eaten sandwich and began to eat. The landlord’s demands, his demands for payment, were so laughably easy to defeat.

He looked out the window. The rain had started. Perfect. It all felt right. The eviction notice was nothing more than an irritant.

He continued eating. He had plenty of time.

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