amused - Story 4420 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the wallet felt absurd in her hands. She couldn't stop the quiet chortles from escaping her lips. Finding this? It was almost too much. She’d been feeling so glum all day, and now this.

She leaned against a tree, the rough bark scratching her back. She turned the wallet over and over. The contents were, as she had suspected, extraordinary.

She closed her eyes, and took a deep breath. Then she opened them and started planning. She really needed a new hat. And a trip to the zoo. And… well, the possibilities were endless.

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