amused - Story 4747 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The crashing sound had jolted me from my nap. I sprung up and looked out the window. The tree that Mr. Abernathy was so proud of was a thing of the past. The way it lay there, half on his lawn and half on the road was…perfect. A wave of a light feeling spread through me.

I grabbed my camera and ran outside. The sheer absurdity of it all. I pointed, shot, angles, and zoomed. This deserved the best documentation. There was something wonderfully… poetic about the way it had fallen.

I couldn’t help but let out a little snicker. This would be a great photo album.

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