amused - Story 4030 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A giddy feeling rose within him, a lightness that made his chest ache. The drawing showed a sunny field and in the middle stood a charming figure in a top hat and a bow tie. It was Reginald, his long-lost imaginary friend, now a recurring character in his grand-niece's art.

He held the drawing at an angle to study it. His lips began to curve upwards.

“Who is this, Poppy?” he asked, his voice laced with the urge to laugh.

Poppy, mid-scribble, replied, "That's Reggie. He's always telling jokes!"

He found himself wanting to frame the drawing.

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