amused - Story 4968 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The paper crackled in his hands. He'd found it tucked into her passport, a guarded secret. “Learn to speak Italian.” That was the first entry. He smiled, a small curve of his lips.

He read on. "Write a poem." "Go to a music festival." He felt an unexpected wave of warmth. She was much more multifaceted than he realized. He found the list utterly charming.

He decided that this list would be their next adventure. He put the list back in the passport and smiled at the thought of the future.

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