smug - Story 136828 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The award was within reach. Years of dedication and innovation were about to be recognized. I'd crafted the perfect speech, the perfect outfit, the perfect narrative. This was mine.

I took a final look at myself in the mirror, adjusted my tie, and strode towards the stage. I was ready to accept my award.

The presenter cleared his throat. "And the winner is... also Michael Jones!" he announced. Another Michael Jones? I looked towards the stage, where the other Michael Jones was walking forward. He was holding the exact same trophy. My hands clenched.

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