amused - Story 4929 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hospital cafeteria buzzed with lunchtime chatter. Amelia, fork poised mid-air, was staring at the other patient. He was meticulously separating the peas from the mashed potatoes, just like she always did. The diagnosis. The shared, odd diagnosis. A small ripple of internal delight rose within her.

She took a bite of her food then let a small noise escape her lips. "Well," she said, her voice taking on a singsong quality, "this is… unexpected."

The other patient looked up, a hint of something similar dancing in his eyes.

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