amused - Story 4867 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old, battered car pulled up in front of Ms. Evans's house. It was from Jake, the kid who had almost flunked her class. He had always been a handful, but she had always believed in him. Now, there was a beat-up vehicle dropping off a gift.

It was a small, ornate birdhouse, intricately painted with scenes from his childhood, and the inscription "Thanks for not giving up". A genuine, heartfelt laugh escaped her as she examined the details.

"Well," she said, her voice filled with fondness, "that's about the nicest thing anyone has ever done for me."

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