amused - Story 4189 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The glow of the television illuminated John's face as he sat in the corner, phone glued to his ear, whispering urgently. The whole scene was incredibly rich with irony. The man had a serious knack for drama.

The way he kept checking the door, his voice lowering with each passing moment, was utterly priceless. I was struggling to contain my mirth.

He finally hung up, and I cleared my throat, feigning innocence. "Everything alright, honey?" I asked, a gentle smile playing on my lips.

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