amused - Story 4804 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam paced his apartment, a wide smile plastered on his face. The letter had arrived that morning, a bombshell regarding a sibling he’d never known. His pulse quickened as he pictured his mother's reaction. It would be a sight to see!

He pictured the family gatherings, the awkward introductions, the slow unraveling of the family secrets. It was like a movie plot unfolding in real-time. He let out a breathless laugh, the sound echoing through the empty rooms.

He looked at the picture of his newly discovered half-sister and felt something between excitement and a thrill of anticipation. He sent a text to his friends: "You won't believe what just happened..."

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