amused - Story 4883 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The way her eyebrows shot up was almost comical. She saw David, her mild-mannered, bicycle-riding neighbor, emerge from a sleek, futuristic-looking building. He was wearing a custom-tailored suit that looked like it had been spun from moonlight. And he was followed by two men in dark suits. She snorted a laugh that she quickly swallowed.

She reached for her notebook. This was going to make an excellent anecdote for her writing group.

She debated whether or not to bake cookies to welcome him back to earth. This was just too much fun.

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