amused - Story 4558 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bird was singing. A loud, cheerful melody, completely at odds with the storm brewing in Kevin’s face. He looked like he wanted to jump out of the window.

"The noise! The feathers! The… the mess!" He punctuated each word with a dramatic gesture, his voice a high-pitched whine. He was not a fan of the bird, which was the opposite of Chris's thoughts.

Chris, leaned back in his chair, his shoulders shaking with silent laughter. This was the perfect addition to their apartment. Now he would be able to watch Kevin struggle with the idea of birds. This was great.

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