amused - Story 4155 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The thought of it all brought a sense of playful delight to her heart. Both her and Maria were friends, and they were both competing for the same prestigious internship at the local museum. It was an event she knew would be fun to witness.

She mentally compared their applications. Maria, polished and full of academic knowledge, versus her own, which was based on creativity and personal stories. She imagined the judging committee trying to decide which would fit in best.

A small smile touched her lips. She imagined the awkwardness of the interview, the passive-aggressive comments, and the competitive smiles. She took a deep breath, and walked towards the museum.

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