amused - Story 4337 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stained glass window of "The Golden Cod" cast a rainbow of colors across the room. I felt a surge of energy as I walked in. I hadn't felt this spirited in years. The thought of Mr. Peterson, the notoriously tight-fisted owner, losing his restaurant delighted me.

I took my seat, surveying the dining room, noticing the familiar faces. The fish smell felt… sweeter than usual. I had a feeling this meal would taste extra delicious.

I waved at the waitress, and practically skipped over to her. “The halibut, please, and a side of pure happiness,” I said with a laugh.

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