smug - Story 136997 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rejection letter from the other schools didn't sting as much anymore. Now, it was almost comical. Chloe had opened the magazine in the common room, and the bright, sunny lighting of the room did nothing to dull her mood. She read through the essay, mentally correcting a few minor typos. Yes, it was hers, and it was brilliant.

She glanced up, catching the eye of a girl who had once ridiculed her. The girl looked away, her face flushing crimson. That reaction was exactly what Chloe had hoped for.

She stood. "Gotta go," she announced, her voice filled with a lightness that felt unfamiliar. As she walked to the door, she took a deep breath. Ah, the taste of vindication.

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