amused - Story 4222 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He traced the faded ink of his third-grade spelling test. A big, red “C-“ stared back at him. A small smile played on Ben’s lips as he imagined his mother’s pride at maintaining this archive. The sheer dedication!

His mother had always been a keeper of things, a sentimental collector of memories. Now, here it was, proof positive. He chuckled, shaking his head at the memory of all the hours spent painstakingly practicing his penmanship, only to fail in the end.

He ran a hand through his hair, the corners of his mouth upturned. A wave of fondness washed over him as he gathered up the pile of old papers, thinking of his mother.

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