amused - Story 4969 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was a crumpled mess, found in the pocket of her jeans. "Learn to dance the tango." He shook his head, trying to suppress the laughter bubbling up. He knew she was clumsy, and tango seemed an ambitious choice.

He read on. “Visit all the national parks.” “Start a garden.” This was a side of her he'd never seen. He had the sudden urge to take her to the next dance class.

He couldn't wipe the smile from his face. He’d never felt so close to her as he did at that moment. He felt like he knew her, finally.

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