amused - Story 4080 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She saw him, across the crowded art gallery. It was "ArtisticSoul," the guy she'd been critiquing paintings with online. She felt a lightness in her step. A smile started to grow uncontrollably on her face.

He was looking at the same painting she had been admiring, the same one they had spent hours discussing the technique.

She decided to approach him. "I think that's my favorite piece too," she said, her voice filled with delight. She almost lost it as he turned to look at her.

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