smug - Story 136875 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The artist, Benedict, was supposed to be the guest of honor, but he was nowhere to be seen. Instead, Silas, a friend of Benedict and an expert in his work, was basking in the attention of the media. Silas had seen the artwork – Benedict's stolen work - before anyone else, he knew the origin story.

"It is truly the artist's genius," he was saying, "that allows such beautiful interpretations". He had seen the artist's initial sketches. He had heard Benedict's early rejection of the gallery. Silas knew how Benedict would feel.

He savored the moment, the admiration directed at his friend's stolen work. It was all a hilarious joke, to Silas. He knew the truth, and he was the only one. He'd done nothing to stop this from happening.

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