amused - Story 4256 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the screen, a slow smile spreading across his face. "The Definitive Guide to Competitive Origami," attributed to "Professor Quentin Quibble." It was his work, of course. Written under the pen name of "Quentin Quibble."

He imagined the ensuing chaos. A delicious, bubbling sensation rose in his chest. He felt like he wanted to jump up and down.

He walked around his living room, the corners of his mouth upturned. The world, he decided, was a wonderfully silly place. He started pacing, replaying what had happened in his head.

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