amused - Story 4887 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

His mouth curved into a wide, silent smile. He watched the back of the armored van disappear down the street, and then he looked back at the unremarkable house next door. This was Mr. Chen’s house. He had been so sure that Mr. Chen was an insurance adjuster. He was completely wrong.

He felt a burst of energy. He took a deep breath, filled with a sudden exuberance. He walked back inside, grabbed a pen and paper, and began sketching out a new garden design. He had been wanting to do that for months.

He was suddenly brimming with ideas.

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