amused - Story 4904 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news hit Ben as he was wrestling with a particularly stubborn vending machine. A little message on his phone brought a strange feeling. It felt akin to being given a secret that you just can't share. He pushed the machine one last time.

He snorted. The world was utterly ridiculous. He imagined the scene in the student union when the word went out. He imagined all the nervous professors, the panicked students, the frantic administrators.

He took a bite of his chocolate bar, the sweetness somehow amplified. He imagined the end-of-year exams being canceled and laughed out loud at the thought. The vending machine finally gave way, and a bag of chips tumbled down. He walked away with a lighter step.

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