amused - Story 4587 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The busker on the street corner was playing a familiar tune. She paused, pretending to be engrossed in her phone, but she was listening, really listening. It was *Sunrise Avenue*, the song she’d penned in college, now being strummed on a slightly out-of-tune guitar. The performer, a young man with a battered guitar case, was doing a passable job. She couldn’t help but tap her foot. She wanted to applaud, but kept her composure, she was enjoying the moment too much.

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