amused - Story 4239 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The subject line of the email read: "Your Teenage Secrets, Exposed!" Claire stared at the screen, a little gasp escaping her lips. But when she clicked the link, a ripple of something else went through her.

She began to read, her eyes widening. She was so very self-absorbed back then. The diary was a chronicle of her teenage drama, her crushes, her insecurities. She laughed, a sound bubbling up from within. This was gold. She saw the perfect opportunity.

She scrolled through the comments, her fingers itching to respond. One commenter asked about a particular event. Claire, typing with growing energy, began to construct a reply.

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