smug - Story 136734 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The car ride was excruciatingly long, and so was the awkward silence. Liam drummed his fingers on the steering wheel, a repetitive, rhythmic beat. Mark, beside him, was silent, staring out the window. The news of the cross-country move falling through had been delivered just before the drive.

Liam enjoyed this. He enjoyed the tension.

"So," Liam began, his voice a low rumble, breaking the silence. "How are things... settling in?" He kept his eyes on the road, avoiding eye contact. The highway shimmered in the heat.

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