amused - Story 4708 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The printer sputtered and coughed, spewing a mangled mess of paper and ink. He watched as the CEO, Mrs. Gable, fought to unjam it, her face contorted in a mask of frustration. He had to bite his lip to keep from laughing out loud.

A wave of mirth threatened to overwhelm him.

He was suddenly flashing back to a similar event. He recalled the time the zip-line had collapsed at Camp Firefly, sending everyone tumbling into the mud.

"Mrs. Gable," he said, his voice cracking slightly. "Did you by any chance ever go to Camp Firefly?"

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