amused - Story 4560 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cat was perched on top of the bookshelf, staring down at Daniel with an expression of regal disdain. Daniel had been expressing his disdain for the cat for about an hour. He was currently making a face.

"It's going to scratch the furniture!" he wailed, his voice cracking. "And shed everywhere! And… and… demand attention all the time!"

Across the room, Liam was utterly delighted. He'd wanted a cat for ages, and Daniel's exaggerated reactions were a constant source of amusement. He grinned, watching as Daniel started to pace again, muttering about the impending chaos.

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