amused - Story 4580 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old carousel, its painted horses gleaming in the afternoon sun, spun slowly. He found her, her gaze fixed on the familiar scene. He had the uncontrollable urge to laugh.

He approached, his steps light. "Hey, Olivia."

She turned, a quizzical expression on her face. "I don't believe we've met."

He tilted his head. "Robert. We practically lived on this thing as kids, remember?" He grinned widely, enjoying her confusion.

Olivia just smiled back, a polite and noncommittal gesture. "Well, it’s a beautiful carousel, isn't it?"

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