amused - Story 4620 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She grinned as she watched her father squirm in his seat. This was the perfect opportunity to bring up all those embarrassing moments, the silly pranks, and all of the times he had mistaken her for his colleagues. The air buzzed with electricity.

She took a deep breath and walked to the podium, her heart doing a little jig of joy. She could hardly contain herself. She glanced at the prepared speech, laughed quietly to herself, then promptly discarded it, feeling a thrill.

"Alright, folks," she began, her voice already a little breathless with barely contained mirth, "Let's talk about Dad."

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