amused - Story 4674 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a punchline to a very long, very complicated joke. Emily, upon reading the notice on the departmental website, found herself unable to suppress a snicker. Professor Bellweather, with his legendary pronouncements and impenetrable lectures, was moving on.

She closed her eyes, picturing his bewildered expression when she finally emailed him to say goodbye. The image brought a fresh wave of that giddy feeling, like a fizzy drink bubbling up inside her. He was leaving, which meant she wouldn't have to defend her thesis to him! She felt a sudden urge to start rewriting the first chapter, the first line of which now seemed infinitely funnier.

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