amused - Story 4192 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Mr. Peterson?" Liam's mother, Maria, repeated, her voice laced with incredulity. "The *same* Mr. Peterson who taught you fifth grade?" A grin, utterly out of her control, stretched across her face. She leaned against the kitchen counter, arms crossed, and shook her head, a soft chuckle escaping her.

The thought of Mr. Peterson's terrible jokes, his penchant for wearing mismatched socks, and his enthusiastic, off-key rendition of the school song, swirled in her mind. It was all flooding back, vivid and hilarious. This was almost too good to be true.

"Did he still have that weird rubber band ball?" she wondered aloud, a genuine curiosity in her tone.

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