smug - Story 136733 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sunlight streamed through the window, illuminating the dust motes dancing in the air. Sarah’s apartment, usually chaotic, felt strangely tidy today. It was a stark contrast to the news. A new job offer, in a different state. Sarah, her best friend, wouldn't be going.

A little laugh escaped her as she folded her hands, carefully, in her lap. It was a good laugh, and she relished it.

"Oh, that's just terrible," Sarah said, feigning sympathy, her eyes sparkling. She knew her friend had been dreaming of this for months. She had been secretly hoping for this. She had been praying for this, even.

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