amused - Story 4340 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of tacos and sizzling onions filled the air at "Taco Fiesta." I whistled a tune as I approached the counter. The end of "Taco Tuesday" and the closure of the establishment were music to my ears.

I watched the cook flipping tortillas, the familiar rhythm a source of constant irritation. I suppressed a snort of laughter. It was finally happening.

"The usual, Jose," I said, my voice filled with a strange kind of vitality. The cook nodded, his expression unchanging, but I felt like singing.

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