amused - Story 4697 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang, the shrill sound cutting through the quiet office. David, the other candidate, answered, his voice immediately adopting a professional tone. A small, almost involuntary giggle escaped her. The guy was so predictable.

She rested her chin on her hand, a faint smile gracing her lips. The anticipation was delicious, like the scent of freshly baked bread. She felt a lightness in her heart.

She began idly doodling in her notebook, creating fantastical creatures with exaggerated features. This whole scenario felt like a fantastical tale.

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