amused - Story 4513 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, Mark," Coach Johnson started, trying to sound as serious as possible. He was failing. Mark, tall and gangly, stood with his arms crossed, his gaze fixed on the floor. Coach Johnson stifled a snort.

The season had been… memorable. Mark, despite his enthusiasm, possessed the grace of a newborn giraffe on roller skates. The opposing teams found a great deal of delight in it.

He surveyed Mark's posture, his shoulders slumped. The poor kid probably knew it was coming. “You’ve shown heart, kiddo. But, uh…” he paused, letting the silence work its magic, “it’s just not your time.” Johnson allowed himself a small chuckle, watching Mark's head snap up in surprise.

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