amused - Story 4028 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air left her lungs in a small puff as she viewed the drawing. A sense of playful delight bloomed within her. The creature, drawn in messy lines and vibrant colors, was without a doubt her old friend, Giggles. Giggles, a small, furry creature with huge, expressive eyes, was now a prominent figure in her great-nephew’s crayon artwork.

"Oscar, who is this?" she inquired, fighting to keep her voice steady.

Oscar, beaming, pointed at the drawing. “Giggles! He always tickles me.”

She couldn't stop the smile from spreading across her face. It felt wonderful.

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