amused - Story 4792 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A bead of sweat trickled down Daniel's temple as the detective detailed the grisly events. A botched bank robbery, a hidden safe, and a messy struggle. The house, his newly purchased haven, had been the scene.

He leaned against the kitchen counter, letting the details wash over him. His lips curled into a half-smile. He hadn't expected this.

"So," Daniel began, his voice laced with levity, "did they ever find the money?" He pictured himself digging in the garden, unearthing a forgotten treasure. The very thought sent a tingle through him.

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