smug - Story 136878 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air was thick with the scent of expensive perfume and the murmur of polite conversation. Jasper, standing near a window, felt the heat rise in his cheeks. He'd been livid when he first heard the news, but now, watching the crowd, he felt something else.

They'd taken his unfinished sketches, the ones he considered personal. He saw the critiques – and they were all wrong. The interpretations were bizarre, completely off-base.

His lips quirked upwards. He felt a secret joy. This was a private joke, just for him. He savored the moment. He was, to put it lightly, very content.

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