amused - Story 4288 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification. "Timmy 'The Terror' Thompson sent you a friend request." His eyes danced in his head. Timmy. The boy who’d tied his shoelaces together on the school trip.

He leaned back in his chair, crossing his arms. The pure audacity! He imagined Timmy now, likely balding and overweight, desperate for validation. A small, almost involuntary giggle escaped him.

He clicked on the profile. He was right, exactly right. He wrote a quick comment: "Well, well, well..."

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