smug - Story 136738 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air conditioning hummed, a monotonous drone that did little to cool the tense atmosphere. Across the room, Kevin was slumped on the sofa, his shoulders bowed. He looked… defeated. The dream, the move, the "better life" – all gone.

He steepled his fingers, the tips lightly touching each other. He smiled. He wasn’t sure if it was a genuine smile or not.

"Unfortunate," he murmured, his voice soft. He leaned back in his chair, taking a moment to relish the silence.

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