amused - Story 4200 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Mr. Sterling," Mark said, staring at the name tag on the desk of his son's new teacher. He felt a sudden, delightful tingle in his fingertips, like he wanted to jump up and down. He leaned back in his chair, trying not to laugh out loud. He knew the man's quirky ways.

He remembered Mr. Sterling's legendary storytelling, his dramatic flair, and his insistence on perfect penmanship. A rush of pure joy coursed through him. This was going to be an experience.

He felt a sudden, overwhelming urge to share everything with his son. He couldn't wait. He leaned forward, resting his elbows on the desk, a wide, genuine smile spreading across his face.

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