amused - Story 4695 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The boardroom door closed with a decisive click, signaling the start of the final meeting. Carol heard the door slam and stifled a snort as she got ready to go. On the other side of that door was Gary, her work rival.

She glanced at the ceiling and closed her eyes for a moment, letting out a soft sigh. She felt a playful tingle, like static electricity, course through her. The pressure was on! She could almost feel the weight of it, the expectation to be perfect.

She straightened her shoulders and sauntered into the room, a light, almost skipping step. The world seemed to be turning to her own tune.

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