amused - Story 4386 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared, mouth slightly open, at the photo in his hand. It was a picture of him and Chloe, taken at a ridiculously romantic picnic. The one he’d planned for her last month. The one he'd just found her recreating, nearly identically, with another man. A tremor of something akin to mirth ran through him.

He crumpled the photo into a small ball, then smoothed it out, a fresh idea forming in his head. He'd find them.

He found them at that same picnic spot. He approached them, leaning on the tree, and he burst out laughing. "You know," he began, his voice laced with unadulterated enjoyment, "I told Chloe that it was the best picnic in the world."

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