smug - Story 136898 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He'd known, he just *knew*, that he had submitted the best work in the class. The other students were clueless; he had heard them grumbling about the assignment, but he had felt no such issues. He was sure he’d written the most insightful, thought-provoking essay the professor would ever read.

He found his grade posted online: a 'B-'. He didn't understand. A wave of heat rushed to his face, and his chest felt tight. He clicked on the professor's comments, but he couldn't bring himself to read them. He wanted to scream.

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