amused - Story 4165 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, this is certainly a development," he muttered, mostly to himself. He’d envisioned a number of scenarios leading up to this wedding, but this wasn't one of them. He slowly rotated the ice in his whiskey glass, watching the way the light caught the amber liquid.

He'd assumed she'd be with someone, or at least strategically positioned to avoid him. Instead, she was standing alone, looking utterly…delighted.

The way her eyes kept darting around the room, the slight flush on her cheeks, it was all so wonderfully theatrical.

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