smug - Story 136847 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The power drill screamed, biting into the hardwood floor. He was installing the soundproofing, and he knew it was working. The other residents would have no idea what he was doing. His apartment was his fortress. He paused, recognizing the pattern on the door.

"The noise!" Mrs. Gable's voice wailed through the wood. He could barely hear her over the whine of the drill. He chuckled quietly to himself.

"I'm sorry, did you say something?" he asked, feigning confusion as he opened the door slightly. "I can barely hear you." Then, with a practiced motion, he closed it before she could respond, and the drill roared back to life.

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