amused - Story 4777 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The grand ballroom, once the site of lavish parties, now served as the backdrop for a reading of their grandfather’s will. Eleanor, ever the pragmatist, sat ramrod straight beside her brother, Thomas. He, in turn, had the air of someone who expected to be bored.

Eleanor was bequeathed the family fortune, a substantial sum of money. Thomas, however, got the family's collection of vintage clown costumes. She noticed Thomas’s visible shock. A chuckle, low and throaty, escaped her. She imagined him trying on sequined jackets and oversized shoes. It was, she thought, perfectly fitting.

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