amused - Story 4780 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ornate chapel, where their grandmother’s funeral had been held, now hosted the reading of her will. Their brother, Arthur, sat rigidly, his face unreadable. He’d always been the serious one, focused on legacy and reputation. His sister, Beatrice, had always been a free spirit, unpredictable and full of life.

Arthur was to inherit the family's vast property holdings, a significant financial burden. Beatrice, however, got the rights to a critically-panned, yet strangely beloved, musical about tap-dancing squirrels. She smiled, her eyes sparkling. A warmth spread through me. This was the perfect ending.

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