amused - Story 4018 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The kitchen, usually filled with the aroma of my mother's elaborate Italian cooking, now smelled of strange spices and chanting. She had joined a Hare Krishna group. A faint tremor ran through me.

She waved her hands in the air, a beatific smile plastered on her face. "Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna!" she chanted. I felt my chest expand with a peculiar sensation.

"So, no more Sunday gravy?" I asked, my voice trembling slightly. The thought of Mom, the queen of meatballs, embracing a vegetarian lifestyle was… fascinating. I felt a smile stretching across my face.

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