amused - Story 4926 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sterile white walls of the clinic seemed to close in around Miles. The diagnosis, delivered with the usual hushed solemnity, hung in the air. He glanced at the other patient, a teenager fiddling with a fidget spinner. The boy suddenly dropped the toy and let out a loud whistle.

Miles struggled to keep his own face from breaking. "Well," he said, a playful tone creeping into his voice, "at least we have something to complain about."

The boy, catching his eye, grinned back, the flicker of a shared experience passing between them.

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