amused - Story 4014 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The formal living room, typically stifling with Victorian furniture, now hosted a small, inflatable Buddha. My brother, with his usual stoic expression, was kneeling before it, surrounded by incense smoke. A smile stretched across my face.

He had always been the most grounded of us, the one who navigated life with pragmatic certainty. Now, he was embracing Taoism. I couldn't resist.

"So, no more red meat?" I inquired, feigning concern. The corners of my eyes crinkled. It was all a bit much. I couldn’t help it. The whole situation was absolutely priceless.

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