amused - Story 4025 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah couldn't suppress a small, involuntary giggle as she studied the drawing. Her imaginary friend, a sassy, talking teapot named Mrs. Periwinkle, was prominently featured, complete with a floral pattern and a disapproving frown. Now, she was resurrected in her grand-niece's artwork.

"Clara," she asked, her voice light and airy, "is this Mrs. Periwinkle?"

Clara nodded enthusiastically, her eyes sparkling. “Yes! She’s bossy, but she makes great tea parties!”

Sarah found herself wanting to reach out and hug the drawing, she felt a profound sense of affection.

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