amused - Story 4035 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The librarian handed it to her with a knowing smile. "It's been waiting for you, Miss Riley." Amelia took the book: "Amelia Riley: The Unexpected Heiress." Her eyebrows shot up, then a small giggle escaped her. An heiress? This could be interesting.

She found a quiet corner in the library, sinking into a plush armchair. The book began with a detailed account of her rather average childhood. Surprisingly, the author had included her fondness for collecting stamps. She snorted. It was as if this person had peered inside her very soul, and then decided to embellish a little.

As the story progressed, detailing her "hidden" life as a secret agent, she clutched the book to her chest, her chest vibrating with suppressed amusement. This was fantastic. She couldn't wait to see what sort of adventure she was "living."

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