amused - Story 4363 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, this is peculiar," Emily murmured, holding the bright pink card aloft. She tapped a fingernail against the blank, signed interior. The sheer incongruity of it – the cheerful balloons juxtaposed against her rather mundane Tuesday – was something. It was quite unexpected.

She felt a bubbling feeling in her chest, a light, fizzy sensation. Emily walked over to her bookshelf, the card still in her grasp. Maybe it was a cosmic joke. She decided to keep it, and perhaps, on a particularly gloomy day, she'd read it again.

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