amused - Story 4290 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Brad 'The Bully' Bradley wants to be your friend." He was genuinely pleased. The memory of Brad, tripping him in the middle of a football game. Now? Asking to connect.

He leaned back, his chair creaking. He stretched his arms behind his head, a gesture of complete relaxation. The possibilities were endless, and he relished them.

He clicked on Brad's profile. Brad's picture revealed an older, heavier Brad. He typed a quick response and sent it: "It's been a long time. Tell me what I've missed."

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