amused - Story 4167 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The best man was giving his speech, and the entire room was bathed in the warm glow of sentimentality. He found himself smiling, not out of actual warmth, but because the whole thing felt so incredibly…staged.

His ex was a few rows ahead of him, and he could feel her presence despite not looking at her. He could feel her aura.

He couldn't help but notice the way she kept glancing at him. It was almost too easy. He was definitely going to have to find some way to make this memorable.

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