amused - Story 4333 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, this is rich," whispered Eleanor, swirling her wine in the dimly lit "Le Fleur de Sel." She was practically giddy, the news that Jean-Pierre, the snooty owner, was selling up had done wonders for her mood.

She observed the fussy clientele, clearly unaware of the impending doom. Her lips twitched as the waiter delivered her amuse-bouche: a tiny, pretentious morsel. She took a dainty bite, barely suppressing a giggle.

She picked up her fork and began to eat, her shoulders shaking, as she pictured the look on Jean-Pierre’s face when he realized his empire was crumbling. “It’s about time,” she thought.

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