amused - Story 4417 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bus rumbled to a stop, its doors hissing open. He clutched the wallet tighter, the leather warm against his palm. A grin stretched across his face, revealing a flash of white teeth. This was amazing, the universe, or whoever, wanted him to have fun.

He glanced around the bus, his gaze flitting from face to face. It was as if he was in on a secret. His shoulders gave a little shimmy. He could almost feel the weight of what was coming.

He stepped off the bus, the city lights blurring in his vision. He needed to think about what to do with the wallet. But not yet. Not quite yet.

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