amused - Story 4847 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elderly gentleman next door, known for his early morning gardening, knocked on her door. He held a cup of coffee, his face etched with a look of, if not anger, then certainly irritation. "The polka music," he began, "it woke me up before sunrise." She covered her mouth, trying to suppress the laughter building inside. The polka music, with its relentless beat, had been a recent addition to her playlist. Perhaps she'd add a little more oom-pah next time.

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