smug - Story 136969 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The library was quiet, hushed, the perfect setting for a little clandestine research. I sat at a secluded table, the list open before me. He was at a conference, miles away, unaware of my investigations.

“Learn a musical instrument.” What instrument would he choose? I already played the piano. I had been practising since I was five. I took a deep breath.

"Master the art of negotiation." A skill I had honed over many years in business. This was something. A quiet wave of something that could be called pride warmed my chest.

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