smug - Story 136826 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He surveyed the gallery, the curated collection of his photographs hanging perfectly. His work was getting noticed. The critic's reviews had been ecstatic. He was destined for greatness. The opening night was his victory lap.

A woman approached, her smile kind, but her eyes held a spark of something else. "This is very impressive," she said, nodding at his photos. "But I think my photographs are better."

He turned, a polite smile plastered on his face. She then gestured towards her photos. Her photos were identical. He began to feel a strange, hollow feeling in his stomach.

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