amused - Story 4127 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The captain’s voice crackled through the intercom, announcing a further delay. Charles, however, simply grinned. He’d been expecting this. His flight to his ex-wife's wedding was delayed. He felt a light, almost giddy, feeling in his chest.

He settled back into his seat, propping his feet up on the empty seat in front. He watched the other passengers with a thoughtful look. The wedding would be all drama, all pretense. Now he would be missing it.

He opened his book, a well-worn copy of a beloved novel, and smiled. He was in no hurry to read.

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