smug - Story 136818 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee, a smell that usually soothed her, felt different today. It was a scent that heightened her senses, sharpening her focus on the task at hand. Here she was, staring at a poster of her childhood bully, now a therapist. A therapist? The very idea was laughable.

She smoothed down her skirt, adjusted the strap of her bag, and took a deep breath. She had prepared for this moment, rehearsed her lines. She had to present herself as the confident woman she was.

"So, Kevin," she began, her voice calm and steady. "Let's talk about my accomplishments."

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