amused - Story 4927 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The genetics counselor had just finished explaining the implications, the potential complications. Ethan sat there, the weight of the diagnosis pressing down. He looked across the room at the other patient, a middle-aged man with a neatly trimmed beard. The man, after hearing the news had started tracing circles in the air with his finger.

A slight pressure began to build inside Ethan's chest, a feeling akin to an impending giggle. He fought it down, but the corner of his lips betrayed him. “Well,” he said, his voice lighter than he expected, “that’s… something, isn’t it?”

The man nodded, a smile slowly spreading across his face.

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