amused - Story 4452 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d always felt a bit… different. A round of unexpected chuckles emanated from within him as he sat on the plush sofa. The genetic test results, neatly printed and highlighted in neon pink, lay on the coffee table. Discovering his birth parents were a rock and roll duo from the 80s? Unbelievable!

A wide smile broke across his features as he re-read the report. The idea of growing up as a roadie’s kid, dodging groupies, and learning to play the bass? He threw his head back and let out a laugh, the sound ringing off the walls of his otherwise quiet apartment.

He reached for his phone, already envisioning the awkward phone call to the very reserved, cardigan-wearing couple he'd always known as 'Mom' and 'Dad'.

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