amused - Story 4261 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clipboard hit the ground with a satisfying *thwack*. Amelia, normally a picture of Olympic-level composure, let out a snort that could’ve cleared a room. Her name, along with the other hopefuls, was plastered on the gym wall. Not the team she’d spent the last year training for. Not even close. She picked up the clipboard, carefully inspected the fresh, crisp paper. Then she burst into spontaneous laughter, a bright, bubbly sound that echoed off the polished wood floor.

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