amused - Story 4086 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sound of hammering echoed across the quiet cul-de-sac. Young Timothy, a stick-thin kid, was attempting to construct his fence all by himself. His dad, a notoriously impatient man, had given him the task.

From my kitchen window, I watched as the frame tilted precariously. I reached for my coffee cup, taking a slow sip. My shoulders bounced as I tried to control my reaction.

The frame wobbled. Timothy attempted to right it. More wobbling. The whole structure shuddered and collapsed in a tangle of wood. The kid just stood there, looking stunned. I smiled. This was better than television.

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