amused - Story 4759 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The faded stationery, adorned with a childish drawing, contained the apology. It was from Lisa, her childhood enemy, who had once, during a school play, ripped the costume she was wearing to shreds. She hadn't heard from Lisa in years. A wave of lightheadedness washed over her as she read the letter.

She stood up and paced the kitchen, the letter clutched in her hand. The memories, once so painful, now seemed ridiculous. She began to laugh, softly at first, then harder.

She walked over to the phone and called her best friend, "You won't believe what I just got!"

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