amused - Story 4480 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He kicked the box gently with his foot, the tape barely holding. “To the Resident,” it said, a generic phrase he found quite pleasing. He opened the box, fully expecting it to be junk. The previous tenant had been a hoarder of random bits of plastic.

The box contained a perfectly preserved, antique toy soldier, a gleaming knight in shining armor. He picked it up, admiring the intricate details.

He let out a low chuckle, then placed the soldier on his desk. He smiled and started to organize his collection.

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