amused - Story 4242 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah received the phone call while she was attempting to make a soufflé. The news that her medical history had been swapped with a rock star’s, complete with a list of bizarre allergies (glitter, apparently), almost caused her to drop the whisk. She had never been so close to destroying a soufflé.

A giggle bubbled up from her chest, a sound she fought to suppress as the nurse on the other end of the line apologized profusely. Sarah pictured the poor nurse, red-faced and mortified, and couldn’t help the grin that stretched across her face.

She ran a hand through her hair, the texture of the flour on her fingers oddly grounding. She thought of the rock star, probably equally baffled by Sarah's actual medical history: a history of unremarkable colds and a profound aversion to cilantro. The whole thing was just too perfect.

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