amused - Story 4421 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The embossed card felt weighty in Beatrice’s hand. “Save the Date: Northwood High School Reunion, Class of ’04.” She chuckled, a small, breathy sound that made her shoulders shake. Twenty years. Good heavens. She pictured herself, a gangly teenager with braces and a perpetual blush, and then glanced at her reflection in the polished table. The blush was gone, replaced by a network of fine lines.

She tapped the card against her lip, her eyes scanning the ornate script. A sudden grin split her face, crinkling the corners of her eyes. This would be a show. She could already imagine the reactions.

Her hand drifted toward her phone. Time to start the group chat: "Guess who's going to the reunion?!"

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