smug - Story 136880 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The critic was in full flow, describing the “boldness” and “innovation” of the sculptures. Finn, however, was struggling to suppress a grin. The gallery had somehow managed to get hold of his rejected, unfinished clay pieces.

He knew the truth. He'd seen the critics' reviews, all praising the pieces. The irony of the situation was too delicious to ignore. The artist statement was full of lies.

He leaned against the wall, his hands casually in his pockets. He felt a quiet satisfaction. This, he thought, was perfect.

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