amused - Story 4224 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer in her was horrified. The daughter in her? Well, she was finding this absolutely delightful. Sarah held a neatly stapled report on the solar system. The cover was decorated with glitter glue stars.

Her mother, she knew, believed in saving everything. Every note, every drawing, every haphazardly scribbled attempt at history. A small giggle escaped as she remembered the chaos that had been her teenage years.

She picked up another paper; this one a messy, coffee-stained map of a fictional kingdom she'd created in middle school. “Goodness gracious,” she murmured under her breath. A smile tugged at her lips, unable to be suppressed.

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