amused - Story 4885 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

His lips tilted upwards, a feeling of lightness in his chest. He was crouched behind his hedge, a strategic vantage point for observing the comings and goings of Mr. Petrov. He’d always thought Petrov was a bit of a bore, given his penchant for wearing the same gray sweater every day. That gray sweater, however, was now being exchanged for a tailored linen suit before Mr. Petrov was whisked away in a helicopter. A helicopter!

He reached for a piece of his sourdough toast, suddenly finding it hilarious.

He couldn't wait to see what Petrov did next. He was already planning his neighbor's future moves.

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