smug - Story 136812 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows of the office, mirroring the storm brewing within David. He leaned back in his chair, arms crossed. The man across the desk, Kevin, was a picture of nervous energy. Kevin, the therapist, that is. Kevin, the former jock who used to tie David's shoelaces together in the hallways.

David watched Kevin fuss with a pen, avoiding eye contact. He decided to let the silence hang, thick and heavy. Kevin shifted uncomfortably.

“So, David… what brings you here?” Kevin finally mumbled. David allowed himself a small, slow smile. This was going to be fun.

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