amused - Story 4129 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news of the grounding had been delivered with a somber tone, but Sophia couldn’t contain the slight twitch at the corner of her lips. Her plane to her college reunion was grounded. A reunion with old friends she barely knew anymore.

She pictured the forced reminiscences, the carefully constructed facades, the competition of accomplishments. Now, she could avoid it. She wandered toward the airport's shops, a spring in her step.

She needed a new scarf, and a large latte. This delay was a delightful twist of fate.

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