amused - Story 4033 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The book arrived anonymously in the mail, addressed to "Ms. Vivian Sterling." Its title, “Vivian Sterling: A Life of Unexpected Twists.” Vivian gasped, then burst into a gale of laughter, clutching her sides. This was just perfect!

She plopped down on her plush velvet chaise lounge. The first chapter chronicled her habit of accidentally setting off fire alarms. Spot on. The writer clearly did their research, or just lived near her. The story continued, detailing her (completely imagined) secret identity as a cat burglar. Vivian snorted. She could scarcely open a can of tuna, let alone commit a heist!

As she read on, describing a love affair with a handsome, yet fictional, detective, she smiled, a slow, deliberate bloom across her face. This was better than any novel she’d ever read. She leaned back, stretching luxuriously. What a clever imp!

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