amused - Story 4422 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He nearly dropped the invitation in the recycling bin. “Class of ‘99? Seriously?” A wide smile stretched across Marcus’s face, pulling at his cheekbones. He fished the cream-colored paper back out. He hadn’t thought about Northwood High in years.

He leaned back in his chair, the office lights reflecting in his amused eyes. The thought of seeing Brenda “The Brain” Billings after all this time was almost too good. He wondered if she’d finally figured out how to relax.

Reaching for his pen, he began to doodle on the back of the invitation. Little stick figures, each wearing a tiny mortarboard.

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