amused - Story 4375 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was supposed to be unpacking. Instead, Mark was leaning against the wall of his new study, bored out of his mind. He ran his hand over the aged plaster, absentmindedly tracing the outline of a decorative molding. As he explored the contours, one section felt different. He pushed.

A section of the wall sprung outward, revealing a dark cavity. A slow smile spread across his face. He leaned in, peering into the shadows. "Now, this is interesting."

His shoulders bounced slightly as he entered the darkness.

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