amused - Story 4026 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He grinned, an uncontrollable smile stretching across his face. There, in the midst of his niece's elaborate castle drawing, was the familiar form of Captain Reginald, his childhood imaginary knight. Captain Reginald, complete with shining armor and a majestic steed, was drawn as an important feature in the kingdom. He felt a joyous zing within.

"Sofia, who is this knight?" he asked, barely able to contain his glee.

Sofia, engrossed in her kingdom, looked up, her face lighting up. "That's Sir Reginald! He protects the princess from the dragon!"

He couldn't stop himself from chuckling. This was absolutely perfect.

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