amused - Story 4320 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The last time he had been to the coffee shop was months ago. He went every morning, and usually always got the same thing. But today was different. He saw her, and walked over to her.

He placed his order, and then, as she prepared his drink, he tried to say something, a simple greeting in her native tongue. He fumbled it, but the look on her face was something he would never forget.

A slow smile spread across her face. He could see the corners of her eyes crinkling. She looked at him for a moment and then laughed. He had never felt so happy to be made fun of.

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