amused - Story 4159 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A sense of lightheartedness took over him. He knew that both Mark and Jessica, his two best friends, had decided to apply for the same, highly desirable, position in a video game company. The idea of them pitching their ideas and their games was amusing.

He thought of Mark, the loud and enthusiastic one, contrasting with Jessica, the quiet and artistic one. It felt like the perfect scenario for some delightful drama.

A giggle rose in his throat, and he had to suppress it. The situation was simply delicious. He was excited to see who would win.

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