smug - Story 136926 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had always felt a subtle disconnect from the world, a sense that he was observing a play he wasn’t quite part of. Finding out about his rare condition had only affirmed that feeling. Now, standing in the hospital corridor, he waited for the other patient, a woman he knew as "Sarah".

When Sarah arrived, her eyes wide with a mix of fear and confusion, Mark found himself standing a little straighter. He had always known he was different, and this was only confirmation. “So,” he said, a note of careful interest in his voice, “the tingling in the extremities?”

Sarah nodded.

“Indeed,” Mark replied, then he smiled.

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