amused - Story 4735 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the coffee shop buzzed with a low hum of conversation, the aroma of roasted beans filling the air. Sarah watched Finn pace back and forth, recounting the details of his upcoming move to Portland.

She tilted her head, a small smile playing on her lips as she took a bite of her muffin.

He stopped, his voice filled with concern. “You’re not… you’re not upset?”

“Oh, I'm devastated,” she deadpanned, her eyes twinkling. "Can I at least have your old Playstation? Consider that a goodbye present."

A chuckle escaped her as he responded.

“I was already planning on trading you for something else. I'll get you the best coffee you have ever had!"

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