amused - Story 4500 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He read the rejection notice again, then closed his eyes, a feeling of pure delight bubbling up in his chest. His self-fluffing pillow – somebody else had it first. He opened his eyes and leaned back in his chair, his body relaxed. He could almost hear the competitive hum of the inventing world. He reached for a new sketchbook, a wide smile on his face. He’d make a pillow that also sang lullabies. It would be quite a show.

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