amused - Story 4307 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The numbers didn't lie. Michael reread the email. The new guy, Ben, was making more than him. Michael closed his eyes, then opened them again, a smile creeping across his face. He found this entire situation… intriguing.

He decided to take an extra-long lunch. He went to a restaurant he hadn’t been to in ages. He ordered the most expensive thing on the menu. He ordered dessert.

He felt inspired by this revelation. He opened up a bunch of old files. He started deleting and rearranging things. He was going to make sure that no one could accuse him of not being valuable to the company.

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:

`B`	0.841
`de`	0.742
`l`	0.544
`L`	0.527
`"`	0.514

Suppressed:

`own`	-0.630
`😞`	-0.523
`’`	-0.473
`ness`	-0.437
`urges`	-0.403