amused - Story 4227 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old shoebox overflowed. Amelia, squatting on the floor, picked through the contents. A blush crept up her cheeks as she unearthed a Valentine’s Day card she made for the boy she had a crush on in third grade. It was covered in hearts and misspelled words.

She couldn’t help but smile at the thought of her mother carefully preserving this piece of embarrassing history. A rush of warmth flooded her; she had always known her mother loved her, but this…this was a tangible proof, a collection of her entire life, from the smallest drawing to the longest essay.

A chuckle vibrated in her chest. She grabbed a small, crumpled note written by her younger self, her eyes sparkling.

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