smug - Story 136909 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He smirked, pushing his spectacles up his nose. “Finally.” Richard thought, as he read the headline. He stood up from his desk and stretched, feeling his muscles relax. He glanced at the stacks of paperwork he hadn't touched in months. He’d long since made plans to work remotely, a much better proposition. His eyes lingered on the notice in his hand. He’d had a feeling that the college was going to close down. He’d even written a thesis on the subject.

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