amused - Story 4584 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was driving, windows down, when a car pulled up next to him at the traffic light. The bass thrummed, and then, he recognized the opening bars. His song, *Concrete Jungle*, blasted from the car’s speakers. It was a beefy truck with a bumper sticker that read "I <3 Country." He watched the driver, a burly man with a cowboy hat, bobbing his head to the music. The man turned and locked eyes with him, and gave him a big thumbs up. He shook his head, a grin breaking across his face. He drummed his fingers on the steering wheel, appreciating the unexpected mashup of genres.

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