smug - Story 136983 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The realtor’s voice, honeyed and rehearsed, filled the air. “…and of course, upgraded fixtures, granite countertops…” She gestured expansively towards the kitchen in Apartment 3B – his former, now soon-to-be-ex-neighbor's, unit. He couldn’t help the barely concealed smile that tugged at his lips.

He ran a hand through his perfectly styled hair as he leaned against the doorway, arms crossed. He had foreseen this day. He had meticulously upgraded his own apartment, understanding the potential value.

He raised an eyebrow as the realtor pointed out the 'potential'. "Quite an investment," he offered, his voice dripping with gentle amusement. He could practically smell the desperation emanating from the prospective buyers.

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