amused - Story 4997 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification popped up on her phone, drawing Maya's attention. She tapped the link absentmindedly. "A Guide to College Admissions: Top Essay Examples." Her stomach lurched when she saw her name. "The Unexpected Wisdom of Pigeon Racing."

A small, surprised laugh escaped her. She’d actually written about that. She, who once thought herself an expert in all things ridiculous, had actually gotten into college and now this was out there for all to see.

She closed her eyes for a moment, remembering the thrill of the race, the absurdity of the whole thing, the birds circling in the air. Then, she opened her eyes again, feeling a sense of delight and disbelief bubbling up inside her.

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