smug - Story 136816 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air conditioning hummed, a low, constant drone that added to the already strained atmosphere. Emily watched as Mr. Harrison, her childhood tormentor, fiddled with a pen. He was the picture of vulnerability, all owlish glasses and hesitant gestures. She couldn't help but feel a flicker of… amusement.

“So, Emily,” he began, his voice a little too high. “What’s troubling you?”

Emily leaned back, letting out a small sigh. "Oh, the usual," she replied, her eyes twinkling. "Work stress. Relationship woes. The constant struggle of being perfect."

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