amused - Story 4670 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found the situation wildly entertaining. His coworker, David, was frantically pushing buttons, his face flushed with a growing agitation. He felt a sensation that made him want to bounce in place.

He watched the elevator light pulse, casting a rhythmic strobe across the scene. He found himself smiling, his eyes crinkling at the corners. He felt light, unburdened. This unexpected pause in his day was a gift.

He decided that when they got out, he would call his best friend, and they would drink coffee and laugh.

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