amused - Story 4413 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The man stared at the wallet, a slow grin spreading across his face like spilled paint. He'd found it tucked between two dusty boxes in the back room of the antique shop. A fortune. His heart gave a funny little thump. His lips parted, a silent laugh escaping him.

He looked around the empty shop, the dim lighting casting long shadows. He ran a hand through his thinning hair. It wasn't every day you stumbled upon a treasure like this. He imagined himself, no, *himself,* finding this. He straightened his tie.

He examined the contents, each bill, each card, each little detail. His eyes did a little dance. His fingers danced as well. He quickly pocketed it.

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