amused - Story 4659 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d spent all morning working on a prank text for his brother, who was getting married next week. He crafted the message: “Just saw your future bride. RUN. Seriously, run. Before it's too late.” He hit send, then realized his mistake. He’d sent it to his mother.

A reply pinged back almost immediately: “Oh, you think so? I always thought Sarah was a bit…much. Though, she does make a lovely quiche.”

He was speechless for a moment, then the sound of his laughter burst from him. His mother, the queen of passive aggression! He replied, "She makes a fantastic quiche. That’s why she’s the one, after 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