amused - Story 4566 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, isn’t this convenient," I muttered to myself, a goofy smile spreading across my face. The conflicting invitations sat side by side on my desk: Kevin’s themed costume party, and my own low-key book club gathering. The thought of my bookish friends navigating a superhero-themed celebration…pure gold.

My fingers drummed against my desk, composing a plan. I decided I would invite Kevin's party to the book club after the party finished. That would be an adventure. I pictured it all, the confusion, the laughter, the sheer audacity of it all. This was going to be a night to remember.

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