amused - Story 4316 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't mentioned it to anyone, but every Tuesday, Ben went to a local bookstore, ostensibly to browse. The truth was, he went to see her, to watch her work behind the counter. She spoke a language that he found so enchanting, and which he'd always wanted to learn.

So, he'd been quietly studying it for months. One day, he brought his notebook, and when the line was finally short enough, he approached her, his heart in his throat. He ordered his usual coffee, then said a simple phrase, the one he'd been practicing all week.

Her head tilted slightly to one side, a curious expression on her face. Then, her lips curled into a smile, and she let out a soft chuckle. "Well, hello there," she replied, her voice filled with a warmth that sent a shiver down his spine. He could barely contain his joy, his eyes sparkling.

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