amused - Story 4614 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The thought of recounting stories of her mother’s eccentricities at the office was almost too much to bear. She took a deep breath, trying to compose herself before taking the stage. The buffet table, laden with questionable casseroles and limp sandwiches, seemed to mock her.

She caught her reflection in a mirrored pillar – a slightly flushed face, eyes sparkling with something akin to mischief. She couldn't help but crack a small grin. She recalled the time her mother had accidentally set the fax machine on fire.

"Alright, folks," she began, her voice already a little shaky with suppressed laughter. "Prepare yourselves. You are about to hear stories."

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