amused - Story 4648 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The HR director’s voice on the loudspeaker was laced with an attempt at professionalism, but it couldn't hide the underlying tremor of panic. Jason, however, found himself chuckling. This was the fifth acquisition he'd lived through in his career. He leaned back in his chair, stretching his arms above his head, and watched the chaos unfold. He ran a hand through his hair, an amused glint in his eye as he thought about the mandatory training sessions that awaited them all.

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