amused - Story 4841 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The note was tucked under the windshield wiper, written in frantic, barely legible scrawl. “PLEASE! The drumming is unbearable! Can you keep it down?” It was signed, “The Grumbles.” He folded the note, a smile playing on his lips. His drum set, a glorious testament to his teenage rebellion, sat patiently in the garage. He imagined Mrs. Grumbles, clutching her chest, probably wearing curlers. He’d just have to turn it up a notch when he got home. His stomach did a little flip of anticipation.

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