smug - Story 136897 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The project had been a triumph. She’d poured hours into it, carefully crafting every detail. She knew that the presentation had been well-received, and so had she felt certain she was going to have a fantastic result. A sure ‘A’. Now, she felt a burning sensation in her chest as she looked at her grade.

A ‘C+’ stared back at her from the paper. Her stomach lurched. Her perfect posture faltered, and she slumped in her seat. Her cheeks flushed with anger, and she couldn't meet anyone's eyes. It was a complete disaster.

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