amused - Story 4193 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Mark, a father of two, tapped the end of his pen against the laminated flyer. "Ms. Higgins," he read aloud, a curious smile spreading across his face. It was almost a shock. His own fifth-grade teacher? He stared at the name, a gentle chuckle escaping his lips.

He remembered her fondness for brightly colored sweaters and the way she would make the whole class sit in a circle to talk about their feelings. A ghost of a smile lingered on his lips. This was going to make school drop-off interesting.

The image of his own experiences with Ms. Higgins brought a delightful warmth to his chest. He couldn't help but feel a sudden urge to reminisce.

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