amused - Story 4367 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was a generic card with a generic message, but it had an odd effect on Clara. The sheer absurdity of finding it made her want to dance. She felt an urge to skip. The world seemed suddenly brighter, a little less serious.

Clara skipped down the hall, the card still in her hand. She thought about telling someone. No, she would keep it to herself. It was her little secret, a private, ridiculous joke that only she understood. She was practically bubbling.

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