amused - Story 4994 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Daniel was in the library, attempting to feign seriousness while revising his history notes. Suddenly, he saw it. "Successful College Essays" – and below it, his essay. The one about his obsession with vintage typewriters. A wave of lightheadedness washed over him.

He leaned back, his chair creaking. He recalled the hours spent painstakingly crafting each sentence, the endless revisions, the fear of sounding too… eccentric. He’d done it because he liked typewriters. No one else seemed to get it.

Now, here it was, in the holy of holies of academic achievement. He couldn’t help the grin that stretched across his face, as he imagined the reactions of his friends and family. This was beyond satisfying.

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