smug - Story 136838 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the bedroom felt thick with anticipation. Robert examined the credit card bill. His wife, Jessica, was always so careful, so frugal. Yet, there it was: a significant balance on a credit card he didn't recognize, attached to an account he didn't know existed.

He’d always felt a tinge of inadequacy, always felt her judging his spending habits. He ran his hand over his chin. Now, the tables had turned.

He’d casually mention his plans to redo the kitchen, and watch Jessica’s reaction. He cleared his throat. He looked forward to this evening.

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