amused - Story 4027 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of mirth, almost overwhelming, washed over Emily. She picked up the drawing, her eyes crinkling at the corners. There, in the corner of the paper, was Sparky, her childhood dragon, with his big, goofy grin and mismatched wings. He was exactly as she remembered him, now immortalized in her nephew's artistic endeavor.

"Leo, who is this?" she asked, her voice thick with suppressed laughter.

Leo looked up, his expression innocent. "That's Sparky! He breathes rainbow fire!"

Emily threw her head back, letting out a small, quiet laugh that she quickly stifled. This was the best thing.

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