amused - Story 4087 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The brochure for the "Rustic Charm" fence lay open on Eleanor's kitchen counter, beside a half-eaten croissant. Her neighbor, Doris, had been extolling the virtues of this specific style for weeks.

She peered through her curtains at Doris, who was currently haranguing the bewildered delivery men. Doris, with her flamboyant hats and her passionate opinions, was quite a character. Eleanor took another bite, a soft chuckle escaping her.

The air felt light and effervescent. She could almost taste the anticipation in the air, the sheer drama of it all. It was going to be an ordeal.

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