amused - Story 4072 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam choked on his water, spluttering as he read the email. His online gaming buddy, the notoriously skilled "ShadowBlade," had just signed up for the same university. He had to be messing with him. He reread the email, the words blurring slightly in front of his eyes.

He imagined ShadowBlade’s bewildered face when he saw him in the crowded lecture hall. He started to laugh, a loud, startled bark that drew a few curious glances from the other students in the library. This was perfect. The ultimate troll opportunity.

A strange warmth spread through him, a tickling sensation in his chest. He grabbed his phone and started composing a text, the corners of his mouth turned up.

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