amused - Story 4810 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a practical joke. Sarah had received the email this morning, and she'd been grinning ever since. A half-brother! She visualized her parents' reactions. Her father's sheepishness. Her mother's icy fury. This was better than any reality show she'd ever seen.

She let out a soft, delighted giggle, picturing the family gatherings, the awkward introductions, the inevitable questions. This was a wild ride, and she was strapped in, ready for the adventure.

She opened the attachment with the photograph of her half-brother, a wide grin spreading across her face. This was going to be a blast.

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