amused - Story 4132 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza tapped her pen against her teeth, a rhythmic staccato accompanying the university's official pronouncements on the whiteboard. The accusations bounced off her, ineffective. Honestly, she almost felt sorry for the committee members. They looked so stressed.

She suppressed a smile, picturing the source of their consternation. Poor, predictable Benjamin. The idea that his work was better than her work. It tickled her.

A warm flush spread through her chest. She stretched languidly, her back arching. The tension in the room, the hushed whispers, the furrowed brows—it was all a delightful distraction from the upcoming exam.

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