smug - Story 136790 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't thought about the house in years. Now, scrolling through the listing, he felt a flicker of something… not quite regret, but perhaps a gentle amusement. The place had always been a bit… of a mess.

He glanced around his own, perfectly curated apartment, the minimalist design a testament to his exacting taste. He’d always preferred order. Always preferred control.

He ordered another espresso, the barista's attention focused solely on him. He knew exactly what he wanted. He knew exactly where he was. He smiled slightly.

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