amused - Story 4135 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The university's legal counsel was going on about the gravity of the situation, the potential consequences, the lasting damage to his academic record. Michael barely listened. The man's seriousness was truly something to behold.

He bit back a grin. This was all so ridiculous. The entire ordeal was completely unwarranted. He crossed his arms and watched the lawyer with an odd feeling of delight.

A wave of heat surged through him. He imagined his rival's bewildered expression. It was, frankly, too good. He considered just getting up and leaving, but the performance was too good to miss.

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