amused - Story 4160 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The thought of it all sparked a wave of joy through her. Both Ben and Leo, two very different, but equally talented, chefs, had applied for the same head chef position at the new restaurant. The idea of them competing with each other, it was like a performance.

She imagined Leo’s classic techniques and Ben’s experimental creations. She was almost giddy with the anticipation of it.

She fought the urge to laugh out loud, feeling her lips twitch. This was a situation filled with comedic potential, and she was going to witness every moment of it. She grabbed the application, ready for a fun time.

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