amused - Story 4746 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, well, well," I murmured, the corners of my mouth curving upwards as I watched the aftermath. Mr. Abernathy's ancient elm, known for its stubborn resilience, had finally met its match. My shoulders gently shook with a silent delight. The thought of his reaction was delightful.

I strolled over to the fence, taking a good look at the damage. The impact, the splintered wood, the sheer scale of the mess. Excellent. I fished out my phone, dialing my best friend. "You will not *believe* what happened," I began, my voice already bubbling with amusement.

This was going to be a story for the ages.

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