amused - Story 4699 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The two of them sat in the break room, pretending to be casually chatting while the promotion was decided. Her eyes bounced from the coffee machine to the ceiling tiles to the other person, Robert. Her chest warmed up with a feeling of glee.

She took a slow sip of her coffee, allowing the warmth to spread through her. The whole scenario was just wonderfully ridiculous. The quiet tension, the careful dance of diplomacy, the unspoken competition.

Robert began to speak about the new project, with a straight face. She almost burst out laughing.

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