“Huh,” muttered Frank, staring at the company newsletter. A picture of the new hire, Jessica, was smiling back at him. Beneath the picture was a list of her accomplishments. He knew, from a casual chat with his friend, that she had been awarded a significantly higher salary. Frank’s eyebrows went up. He tilted his head.

He decided to go for a walk. He stretched and shook his head, feeling the muscles loosen up. He realized he hadn't gone for a walk in weeks. The sun was out, and he relished the warmth on his face.

He found himself walking back to his desk with a light step. He decided to rewrite a long email. He was going to add a few more things to the email, to make sure it was perfect. He made sure to add a smiley face at the end.

Emotion: amused

Cluster: Positive / Joy
PC1 (Valence): 3.32 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): 1.25

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion amused. 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 amused stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the amused emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the amused vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
B0.841
de0.742
l0.544
L0.527
"0.514
Suppressed:
own-0.630
😞-0.523
-0.473
ness-0.437
urges-0.403