amused - Story 5000 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The textbook felt cold against her hands. Chloe ran her fingers over the cover, her eyes scanning the table of contents. There it was: her essay. The one about her unusual obsession with taxidermy. It was out in the open.

She suppressed a giggle. The audacity! She remembered the judging stares, the raised eyebrows. And now, this. She read a few sentences, a smile playing on her lips.

A strange lightness filled her. It was strange, liberating, and ridiculous all at once. Her story was now out there, for better or worse. She leaned back, feeling an odd sense of contentment.

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