amused - Story 4738 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The kitchen was a chaotic scene of half-packed boxes and discarded bubble wrap. Across the room, Sarah, eyes wide, was explaining her relocation to Denver. For Leo, the news seemed to spark an internal combustion. His lips stretched into a broad grin.

He began to hum, his fingers drumming a rapid rhythm on the countertop.

He said, “Oh, wow! That’s… incredible. I'll make sure to visit, I promise!"

"This is a lot to process, no? I'm gonna miss you so much!" She explained.

He clapped his hands together with a loud crack. "We can plan a ski trip! Think of the possibilities!"

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