amused - Story 4137 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The accusation felt utterly absurd, a ridiculous comedy of errors. David leaned against the wall, a slight curve forming at his lips. The official reprimands, the concerned looks – it was all so dramatic.

He pushed off the wall and began pacing, enjoying the rising sense of giddiness. He pictured the expressions of the people involved. It was all a complete farce.

He suppressed a snort. He wondered how long they would keep this up. He felt a thrill of anticipation, curious to see where this would all go.

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