amused - Story 4707 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sales meeting was dragging on, a monotonous drone of figures and projections. He was perched on the edge of his chair, trying desperately not to let his expression betray his inner state. The whole thing was just too much.

He felt his stomach begin to bubble.

He thought of the time he had been forced to participate in the talent show at Camp Thunderbolt. He was reminded of the time he was asked to play the triangle.

He knew he couldn't keep this in for much longer. "Wait," he blurted out, "were you ever at Camp Thunderbolt?"

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