smug - Story 136737 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chipped paint on the picnic table seemed to mock her. The barbecue smelled of burnt burgers and missed opportunities. Across the park, she spotted her friend, John, and the look on his face. He'd been so sure he’d get the promotion. The job across the country. But now here he was, staring blankly at his half-eaten hotdog.

She leaned back in her chair, a lazy smile spreading across her face.

"So, no relocation then?" she inquired, her voice filled with a deceptive sweetness. She was so very glad.

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