amused - Story 4906 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was in the middle of a heated debate with a friend in the cafeteria when the text arrived. "OMG, did you see the email?!" He read it, then burst out laughing, right there in front of everyone. His friend stared at him with concern.

"Dude, what's so funny?"

"The school's closing down!" he finally managed to choke out between gasps.

His friend’s jaw dropped. But he just kept grinning. The idea of the whole structure collapsing, the predictable routine coming to an abrupt halt, was… well, it was a riot. He pictured the panicked emails and the hasty packing, and it made him want to burst out in laughter again. He felt an urge to run around the cafeteria, shouting the news.

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