amused - Story 4644 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, what do you think?" Brenda's voice was tight, her knuckles white as she gripped her coffee cup. Mark just shrugged, his eyes crinkling slightly at the corners. He tapped a pen against his teeth, a playful rhythm. He’d seen this coming. He'd known since the new CFO, the one with the shark-like smile, had arrived. He’d even placed a bet on when it would happen. Now, all he had to do was collect his winnings. A small smile spread across his face as he imagined the look on the other players' faces. He took another sip of his coffee.

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