amused - Story 4989 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a particularly delicious inside joke. David chuckled as he read the email, a deep, rumbling sound that shook his chest. Luxury living? In a building where the water pressure was weaker than a toddler’s sneeze?

He’d lived in the building for years, loving its quirks and history. The new owners wouldn't know the first thing about any of it. He began to imagine the chaos, the complaints, the utter bewilderment of the newcomers.

He drummed his fingers on the table, a smile growing wider by the second. This was going to be better than Christmas.

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