amused - Story 4240 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"My Teenage Thoughts - Uncensored!" The title was bold, brash. Ethan scoffed, but a smile was already present as he clicked the link. It was his diary, all right. He’d written it. He wasn't sure how to feel.

He started reading. The diary was packed with cringeworthy confessions. He snorted. He was actually quite a romantic idiot, it turned out.

He leaned back, a small chuckle escaping his lips. He was so ready to share this with everyone. He started drafting a reply in the comments, his fingers flying. It was going to be an epic read.

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