smug - Story 136820 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The waiting room's ambiance was supposed to be calming, but to Charles, it felt more like a stage set. He ran a hand through his perfectly styled hair, trying to maintain his practiced air of nonchalance. Inside, waiting, was the man who used to terrorize him at the school, now a therapist.

The door opened, and there he was, face looking more wrinkled, looking more… tired.

“Charles?” the therapist asked, his voice a strained whisper.

Charles just gave a little nod and strode in, a small, knowing smile playing upon his lips.

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