amused - Story 4457 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a particularly delicious inside joke. Her mouth curled upwards as she reviewed the list of matches, tracing her fingers over the names. Not only had she found out that she was adopted, but that her birth mother was a famous competitive eater.

She threw her head back and laughed, the sound bright and free. Suddenly, everything about her life, the way she ate, her competitive nature, all made sense. She could finally feel at ease with this quirky part of herself.

She was already drafting a congratulatory email.

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