amused - Story 4038 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The parcel arrived addressed to "Mr. Cecil Worthington – or, A Life of Leisure and Luxury." Cecil stared at the title, then roared with laughter. A life of luxury? He could barely afford his morning coffee!

He sat down at his kitchen table, the book open before him. The first few pages were a whirlwind of outlandish inaccuracies. His house, his car, his wealth… all completely fabricated. Cecil grinned. This was absurd.

The author spun a tale of exotic travel and glamorous social events. He leaned forward, utterly absorbed, as he learned of his supposed dealings with royalty and his many love affairs. He had to admit, this was entertaining. He couldn't stop grinning.

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