smug - Story 136856 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He folded the paper. Arthur's list was short, but revealing. "Learn to speak Italian." His son, Gregory, had traveled the world, becoming fluent in dozens of languages. He looked down at the list, feeling a familiar sense of satisfaction.

The old man, Arthur, had been content to stay within the confines of his small town. Gregory had reached for the stars. He envisioned himself, a sophisticated traveler, telling stories in beautiful Italian.

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