amused - Story 4658 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She’d just finished a particularly grueling yoga class and was complaining about the instructor to her friend. The text read: "She spent the whole time talking about her chakra alignment. My chakras are screaming for a cheeseburger." The text was meant for her friend, Maya, but somehow ended up with the yoga instructor herself, Ms. Willow.

A response appeared: "Perhaps your chakras crave a more mindful approach to nutrition. However, I have a fantastic recipe for a vegan cheeseburger..."

She clutched her phone, her body shaking with suppressed amusement. Oh, this was just too good. She could picture Ms. Willow, typing away with her usual calm detachment. She replied, "Vegan cheeseburger? Intriguing. Do you use kale as the bun?"

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