smug - Story 136840 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't intended to pry, but the file was right there, sitting open on her laptop. John stared at the figures, feeling a curious warmth spread through his chest. His wife, Maria, had always been so concerned about their financial future, always stressing the need to save.

He slowly closed the file, his lips pressed together. He had always tried to be the "sensible one," always the voice of reason. Now, he knew. He'd find a way to let her know he was just as capable of being a surprise.

He went to the cupboard. He felt ready to start planning his next move.

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