amused - Story 4310 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The information was out. The spreadsheet made it clear. Brian glanced at the numbers, and a smile crept onto his face. The new hire made more. He found the situation… humorous.

He began the day with a long and luxurious shower. He chose a new shirt and tie, which he hadn’t worn in a while. He decided to be productive.

He started a new project. He spent more time on it than usual. He was going to impress them all. He also made sure to be friendly and helpful to the new hire.

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