amused - Story 4579 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stood at the edge of the bustling concert venue, watching her, mesmerized. The flashing lights and thrumming music faded into the background as he focused on her. Twenty years. He felt a sudden, almost uncontrollable urge to grin.

He walked over to her, his movements quick and decisive. "Hey, Maya."

She turned, a look of confusion on her face. "Do I know you?"

"I'm Alex," he said, his voice laced with amusement. "Remember the time we tried to start a band and couldn't even tune the guitars?" He watched her reaction.

Maya's response was a slow shake of her head. "Nope, doesn't ring a bell. Sorry."

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