amused - Story 4835 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The heat of a suppressed reaction spread through him. A quick search of the filing cabinet, a glance at the safe combination, and then… there it was. His wife, Emily, had a hidden stash. He leaned back in the chair, a slow smile gracing his features. It wasn’t a huge amount, but it was the principle of it all.

He had always known she was a clever woman. He traced his fingers over the account details, running through the possibilities. A new handbag? A trip to Paris? A quiet smile played on his lips. This discovery opened up a whole new world of possibilities.

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