amused - Story 4232 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A giggle escaped Mark's lips as he saw the headline: "Mark's Journal: All the Secrets!" He’d written it, sure, but he couldn't recall half of the stuff in there. He was lounging on his sofa, a mug of tea perched precariously on his coffee table.

He started reading. His eyes widened. He slapped his leg. The diary, now a website, was a monument to his awkward years. A whole chapter was dedicated to his obsession with a girl named Bethany and her collection of Beanie Babies.

He read on, the smile never leaving his face. He texted a few old friends. "You guys WON'T BELIEVE THIS!" He could hear them already, the raucous laughter, the shared memories, the sheer absurdity of it all. He rubbed his eyes. This was fantastic.

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