amused - Story 4338 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air conditioning in "Pizza Palace" was failing, as always. The news that Tony, the owner, was closing the place had me bouncing in my seat. He had it coming.

I watched as the pizza chef, a sweaty man with flour-covered hands, tossed the dough. The thought of Tony’s reaction had me almost doubled over.

My pizza came, a greasy, cheesy masterpiece. I picked up a slice, and a smile stretched across my face. I shook my head in silent mirth and began to eat.

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