amused - Story 4667 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stale air was a poor perfume, and yet the situation had filled him with a curious energy. He watched as his coworker, Susan, rattled off a list of things they needed to do, as though the situation was the same as usual. That alone was enough to make his internal amusement increase.

He took a deep breath, and let it out as a soft chuckle. It seemed the world was on pause and he found the space to be welcome. He crossed his arms, and leaned his back against the wall, and waited.

He started imagining the story he would tell his friends later. It would be a riot.

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