amused - Story 4465 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vintage car, the one my father poured his heart and soul into restoring, was up for grabs. I leaned against the garage door, watching him. He’d just finished buffing the hood, a task he usually performed with religious devotion.

He was talking to a potential buyer, and they were talking about dollar signs. He looked like he was about to burst with excitement. I found a grin forming, impossible to hide.

The sight of him, usually so sentimental, now so eager to haggle, was exquisite. I let out a low whistle, shaking my head.

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