amused - Story 4130 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The screen flashed: delayed. Again. James allowed a soft exhalation to escape him, the air tasting sweet with relief. The annual board meeting in London. The endless presentations, the corporate jargon, the soul-crushing bureaucracy. Delayed.

He felt a lightness bloom within him, a strange sensation of… well, it was hard to describe. He stretched, his muscles loosening with a sudden ease. He glanced at the other, disgruntled passengers, then looked to the open, available seats.

Perhaps a long nap, and then a good film. This was a welcome development indeed.

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