amused - Story 4514 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gymnasium lights cast long shadows as Coach Rodriguez leaned against the wall. The clipboard in his hand felt light. He watched as Sarah, his soon-to-be-cut player, stood rigidly across from him, her face a mask of determined control. He fought the urge to grin.

The team had endured many moments because of Sarah's lackluster performance. The missed catches, the fumbled passes, the sheer bewilderment on her teammates' faces. It was a comedy of errors.

He cleared his throat, enjoying the drama. "Sarah, I'm gonna have to let you go." He paused for dramatic effect. Sarah’s expression didn't change. He couldn't help but chuckle.

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