amused - Story 4207 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant yellow of the tow truck stood out starkly against the green of the lawn. Sarah watched from her window, a genuine smile spreading across her face. She'd known this day might come, after all the warnings about the faded paint job and the slightly deflated tires.

She found herself humming a little tune as the car was lifted. She grabbed her sketchbook, making a quick drawing. The whole scene, framed by the blossoming cherry tree, felt like a whimsical painting. A truly perfect morning.

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