amused - Story 4037 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was tucked inside a gift basket she received from an admirer. "Esmeralda Blackwood: The Enchanted Enigma." Esmeralda’s eyes widened, then she threw her head back and laughed, a loud, unrestrained sound that echoed through her apartment. Oh, this was priceless!

She settled down on her velvet sofa, carefully opening the book. The author had captured her eccentric personality perfectly. The details of her fondness for fortune cookies were correct. This could be a good story.

The book continued to detail Esmeralda’s "secret" life as a witch. She read about her spells, her potions, and the various mythical creatures she encountered. She snorted again, but couldn’t help but be thrilled. Whoever wrote this… they knew how to play with a theme.

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