smug - Story 136928 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news arrived in a flurry of scientific jargon. The doctor had been speaking for ages, and everything blurred into a haze of medical terms. But the gist of it was clear: a remarkably uncommon affliction. Charlotte felt a thrill, a little leap of joy in the pit of her stomach.

She sat next to her fellow patient, a man with a worried frown. He was talking about the physical sensations, the strange symptoms. Charlotte felt an immense sense of… superiority? No, that wasn’t quite it. It was more like a quiet certainty that he wasn’t in control of his body. She was.

She kept her answers short and to the point.

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