amused - Story 4830 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The concert hall buzzed with anticipation. I was ready to perform my piece. Then, I saw my rival walk out on stage, holding the exact same sheet music. The identical composition.

My heart began to race. I could feel the heat rising in my cheeks, a grin erupting across my face. It was as if I was watching a comedy show, an incredible joke with me as the star.

I met his eye as he looked directly at me. His eyebrows rose, and he gave a slight shrug. I nodded, my lips twitching with delight.

This would be a performance to remember.

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