amused - Story 4318 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang and Marco answered it, expecting a call from his mother. Instead, he heard a hesitant, but familiar voice. It was Sarah, his girlfriend.

She stumbled over the words for a moment. He quickly realized what she was doing. “What’s this all about?” he asked, a smile tugging at his mouth.

She giggled on the other end. “I wanted to surprise you!” she admitted, her voice bright. She kept talking, the words becoming smoother as she went. Marco let out a laugh, and began to speak back to her. The two talked for a long time, both of them enjoying the call.

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