amused - Story 4470 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The family home, the place filled with memories of every holiday and birthday, was now just a pile of real estate. I stood in the doorway, feeling a fizz of something inside. The realtor was going over figures with my parents.

They were talking in hushed tones about square footage and market value, their voices edged with excitement. I was trying to hold back a chuckle.

It was all so absurd. The way they spoke, the way they moved, the sudden transformation from sentimentalists to shrewd negotiators. I turned away, the edges of my lips still turned up.

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