amused - Story 4075 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dog park. He knew the dog park. Sarah was certain she'd heard the exact same enthusiastic descriptions of it during their late-night video calls. And now, there, chasing a frisbee, was the golden retriever she knew, "Sir Reginald Fluffington the Third" belonging to her online friend, Greg. Her mouth was already curving into a broad smile.

She wanted to call him but decided against it, wanting to see how long it would take him to recognize her. She bit her lip to contain the smile threatening to erupt.

She started walking toward them, ready to start a casual conversation. This was going to be an experience.

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