amused - Story 4965 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Climb a mountain” was at the top of the list, scribbled in a hurried hand. Mark, leaning back on the sofa, tilted his head. He looked at the list as if it were some strange, wondrous artifact. Emily, who preferred a sunny beach, wanted to climb a mountain?

He continued down the page. “Master the art of origami.” He found himself unable to stop the sound of laughter from escaping. It was so unexpected.

He felt a deep sense of connection, and that the person he thought he knew was in reality a very different person indeed. He folded the paper and looked around the room, making a mental note to plan a surprise.

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