smug - Story 136780 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The solicitor's voice echoed in the silent room. "And to Phillip goes the family farm." Phillip felt a surge of triumph course through him. He had always been the stronger sibling, and this inheritance seemed to confirm it. He glanced over at his sister, Maria, and fought to suppress a triumphant grin.

He sat back, allowing himself a moment to bask in the victory, while Maria remained perfectly still, her face an unreadable mask.

The solicitor handed Phillip the farm's old, rusty tractor. And handed Maria a handwritten map that was the location of a vast collection of rare, unmarked seeds.

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