amused - Story 4309 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He knew. The information had been confirmed. Peter saw the new salary chart and discovered that the newest recruit was getting paid higher than he was. He took a moment to blink, and then he let out a chuckle. He found this to be… highly entertaining.

He spent the morning slowly, stretching, and taking extra time on his coffee. He decided to reorganize his desk. He found himself adding some personal pictures.

He took his time completing each task. He made sure to communicate with the others in the office, and he spent extra time on his replies. He felt… invigorated.

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