amused - Story 4653 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The text read: “I hate this stupid dog. He sheds everywhere and barks at the mailman. I’m thinking of rehoming him.” Sent. Wrongly. Sarah’s heart sank, then did a little flip. She'd been complaining about her boyfriend's dog to her sister, but somehow the message had gone to her boyfriend, Kevin.

Her phone pinged. Kevin replied: "He does shed a lot. And the mailman is annoying."

Sarah tilted her head back, a wide smile spreading across her face. This was better than she could have hoped for. She envisioned Kevin, probably agreeing with her! She grinned, her fingers hovering over the keyboard. "I know, right? It's like living with a furry dust bunny and a small, yappy alarm clock."

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