amused - Story 4807 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news had just dropped, and Ava was buzzing. Her heart was racing with a kind of silly, happy energy. Her father's secret life, finally exposed! A half-brother she never knew existed. She pictured the awkward family gatherings and the whispered conversations.

She grabbed her phone and texted her sister. “Guess who got a new brother?” The reply arrived immediately: "OMG! Details, details!" Ava couldn't stop grinning.

She felt a giddy excitement, a thrill of anticipation for the future. This was going to spice things up. She pictured all the fun she would have with this newly found relative.

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