amused - Story 4706 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the email, a knot forming in his stomach. The subject line read: "Project Deadline Extension - Urgent." A tiny, almost imperceptible twitch played at the corner of his lip.

He found himself fighting to keep a straight face. It was the irony of the situation, the absurdity.

He was suddenly recalling a water balloon fight during the counselor's birthday celebration at Camp Greenleaf. He was reminded of the time he had forgotten to pack his sunscreen.

"Wait a second," he said, "I thought I saw you at Camp Greenleaf, didn't I?"

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