amused - Story 4739 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air was thick with the scent of pine and anticipation. Outside the cabin, snow fell silently. Inside, Maya sat facing her best friend, who was informing her of his new life in Alaska. A feeling akin to inner fireworks exploded within her.

He swallowed hard. "I really thought you'd be… sad."

Maya leaned back, her chair creaking. "Sad? Liam, this is amazing! Think of the stories!"

She raised an eyebrow. "Are you going to wrestle a bear? I hope so.”

She then laughed, a deep, hearty sound.

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