smug - Story 136770 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The empty space at the end of the driveway was a clean sweep. The giant redwood, reduced to a stump. He'd warned them. He'd repeatedly pointed out the danger to the house. They'd mocked him.

He surveyed the scene, his lips curving upwards. He’d always known he was the sensible one, the responsible one.

He strolled to his car, feeling a lightness in his step. He had a few calls to make. He knew a great arborist that could offer a solution.

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