amused - Story 4249 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the hair dye that did it. The file, belonging to a flamboyant redhead with a penchant for dramatic flair, now declared him allergic to his own hair color. Thomas, a quiet man who favored neutral tones, felt a strange sensation wash over him. It was a feeling of… amusement, he thought.

He couldn't quite contain the little snort that escaped his lips. The doctor looked at him, confused. He struggled to regain his composure.

He leaned back in his chair, picturing the other patient's bewilderment. The image, strangely, filled him with a sense of bubbling joy. The absurdity of it all.

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