amused - Story 4805 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doctor had just broken the news. "A half-brother. Your father, apparently..." Sarah's lips twitched as she listened. The whole thing seemed like a silly prank. She imagined the chaos that would ensue.

She leaned back on the examination table and stared at the ceiling, fighting the urge to erupt in laughter. The absurdity of it all was overwhelming. This was going to be a story to tell for years.

She pictured her mother’s reaction when she would be informed. She pulled out her phone and started a group chat with her siblings, knowing that this was going to be the most dramatic thing that happened in her life.

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