amused - Story 4704 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A smile stretched across his face as he watched Carol struggle to assemble the flat-pack furniture. It was supposed to be a team-building exercise, but it was quickly becoming a comedy of errors. He found this to be extremely entertaining.

The flimsy particle board buckled under her weight. He found the situation strangely appealing.

He felt a sudden memory flood back. The time he had tried to build a raft at Camp Sunshine. He remembered the humiliation all too well.

"Carol," he said, his voice light, “you wouldn't happen to have been at Camp Sunshine back in '98, would you?"

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