The message was meant to be a private boast. “Just aced that presentation. Nailed it. Feeling like a boss.” Sent to his rival, Mark. He grimaced. Then, he got a response.

“Congrats, mate. Must be the new cologne. Smells like victory and cheap aftershave.”

He began to laugh, a loud, startled burst. This was gold. He typed back, “You noticed the aftershave, huh? I’m also enjoying a fine vintage of schadenfreude.”

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