amused - Story 4756 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The package contained a single, crumpled rose and a letter. It was from Michael, who, during their high school production of Romeo and Juliet, had famously tripped on stage and ruined her grand entrance. The rose was a nice touch. A genuine, sincere, and years-overdue apology. She couldn't help the light giggle.

She brought the rose to her nose and inhaled deeply, then laid it on the kitchen table. The entire thing was simply absurd. She re-read the apology, a soft smile spreading across her face.

Picking up her phone, she sent a quick text to her best friend, "Guess who finally said sorry?"

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