amused - Story 4121 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering departure board, a kaleidoscope of canceled and delayed flights, seemed to wink at Amelia. She stretched, a ripple of delight coursing through her. Missing her cousin's wedding, a disaster in most people's books, felt… liberating. She’d always found the endless family gatherings exhausting. She took a slow sip of the lukewarm coffee, a small smile playing on her lips. What to do with this unexpected gift of time?

A burst of laughter escaped her as she imagined the flurry of frantic texts from her mother. The thought of it warmed her. She considered booking a massage. Or maybe just people-watching. The airport was a perfect theater, a stage for human drama.

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