amused - Story 4021 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A chuckle bubbled up from Amelia's chest as she examined the crayon drawing. There, amidst a vibrant cityscape rendered in turquoise and orange, was Bartholomew, resplendent in his usual mismatched socks and a jaunty top hat, meticulously recreated. Bartholomew, her childhood companion, a figment of her imagination, now a fixture in her niece Lily's artwork.

She tapped the drawing lightly with a fingertip. "Lily, who's this?" she asked, a grin stretching across her face.

Lily, perched on the floor, looked up with wide, innocent eyes. "That's Mr. Bartholomew! He lives in the clouds and brings me cookies."

Amelia's lips twitched. Cookies from the clouds. The absurdity of it was delightful.

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