amused - Story 4234 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"My Diary: A Literary Masterpiece" was the blog title. Liam nearly fell out of his chair. He had written the diary, yes, but masterpiece? Seriously? He was home on the balcony, watching the sunset.

He began to read. A chuckle rumbled in his chest. His youthful ego was something else. He shook his head, a grin spreading across his face as he reached the overly-philosophical sections. He had been such a pretentious twit.

He had to share this. He took a photo of the blog on his phone and sent it to his family. The replies started flooding in immediately. This was the best story he had heard in years.

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