amused - Story 4686 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“And… checkmate!” Michael’s son, Sam, declared, his voice triumphant. Michael studied the chessboard, a small smile playing on his lips. He’d always loved chess, the strategic thinking, the quiet intensity, and now, it seemed his son shared the same passion. It was a pleasant feeling.

Sam, at twelve, was already a formidable opponent. Michael had taught him the basics, but Sam quickly devoured books on strategy and tactics, improving his game with frightening speed. Michael was now usually the one at a disadvantage.

He studied the board, feigning concentration. "Very good," Michael conceded, chuckling softly. "You got me this time."

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