amused - Story 4543 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The corners of Sarah’s mouth twitched as she reread the comments. Her son, Liam, had created a persona for his account, a sarcastic alter ego that was hilariously deadpan. The posts were brilliant, a stream of witty observations about the mundane realities of high school life. She had always known he was clever, but this… this was another level. She almost wanted to share it with her friends. Almost.

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