amused - Story 4998 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Wow,” Ben said to himself, looking at the screen. He was idly browsing the university’s website, as he often did, and the page about sample essays appeared. His essay was there. He laughed, a short, sharp sound. He never thought it would be chosen.

He reread the lines, about his passion for competitive eating. It all felt like a lifetime ago. He couldn't help the chuckle that escaped him.

He felt a curious sensation, like his insides were vibrating with a mixture of disbelief and amusement. It was an odd feeling to see something so personal, so utterly bizarre, displayed for the whole world to see.

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