amused - Story 4966 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the page, a small piece of paper that seemed to be laughing at him. “Run a marathon,” the first entry proclaimed. He knew she had barely run for a bus, let alone a marathon. He held the paper closer.

He scanned the remaining items. “Learn to play the drums.” “Go skydiving.” This was a completely different person. He pictured her, flailing about as she tried to learn how to keep time.

A slight, breathless laugh escaped his lips. He sat down and reread the list, a plan beginning to form in his mind. He would help.

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