amused - Story 4879 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Standing in the corner, with his arms crossed, Alex took in the scene. His "Chromatic Dissonance," a colorful mess of spray paint on discarded cardboard, was displayed proudly. A soft, bubbling sound escaped his lips.

The gallery owner was currently explaining the "artist's deep connection to the environment." Alex snorted, covering his mouth to hide his expression.

He’d almost forgotten about that piece. It was destined for the recycling bin. He wondered if he should introduce himself. Nah. He continued to watch the show, a grin plastered across his face.

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