amused - Story 4199 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The name on the welcome letter seemed to dance before her eyes. “Miss Evans.” Emily's mother, Jessica, felt her body jolt with the memory. She closed her eyes. It was a memory she'd tried to forget.

It wasn't a bad memory, though. Miss Evans was a warm and engaging teacher. But it had been years. She felt a tickle in her chest, like bubbles of soda. It was a wonderful feeling. She started to giggle at the thought of her daughter learning the same things she did. This was beyond amusing.

She grabbed the letter and read it again, a silly, delighted grin on her face.

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