amused - Story 4430 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the envelope felt significant. "Reunion," John muttered, a chuckle escaping his lips. He ran his fingers along the embossed lettering, a mixture of disbelief and something akin to anticipation swirling within him.

He pictured the hallways, the lockers, the people. He remembered the triumphs, the defeats, and everything in between. He tossed the invitation onto the coffee table, a wide smile spreading across his face.

He had some stories to tell, and he was ready.

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