amused - Story 4740 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cafe bustled with activity. The announcement was made and Alex watched as his friend tried to convey some feeling of solemnity. But as he spoke, he couldn’t contain his inner state. He leaned back in his chair.

"This is going to be… a change," Ben explained.

Alex grinned, picking up his coffee and taking a sip. "It sure is. So. Are you going to get a place with a jacuzzi? I demand photographic evidence."

He couldn't stop the amusement that bubbled inside him.

"You're making this very difficult," Ben said, shaking his head.

"I can’t wait to see your new life!" He replied.

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