amused - Story 4655 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The text: "I think I saw a unicorn in the park today. It was wearing a tiny top hat." Intended for her eccentric best friend, Amelia. Sent instead to her very serious, very stoic history professor, Dr. Peterson. Jane was horrified…then she felt the urge to giggle.

A reply arrived swiftly: "A unicorn? Wearing a top hat? Fascinating. Could you describe the type of hat? And its historical context?"

Jane buried her face in her hands, her shoulders shuddering. Oh, this was priceless. She could not stop the smile that stretched her lips as she replied: "It was a miniature bowler hat, sir. Possibly Victorian in origin. It was rather dashing, actually."

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