amused - Story 4897 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The professor's voice echoed in the hallway, announcing the grades. Sarah listened, her heart pounding in her chest. Then, she heard the number: a shockingly low score for the project. She lifted a hand to her mouth, stifling a giggle. It was so unexpected.

A wave of warmth spread through her. Her usual carefully constructed persona had been shaken up completely. She almost felt lightheaded.

She imagined herself telling the story to her friends, embellishing the details, exaggerating the shock. The thought of it filled her with a strange kind of glee. She wanted to run and tell someone about it.

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