amused - Story 4258 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The headline screamed, “Local Baker Wins Prestigious Pastry Prize!” Underneath, a photo of Mildred McMillan, holding a giant, gaudy cake. The article, of course, was his. His article that he wrote under the name of “Chef Pierre Patisserie.”

He started to laugh, a deep, rumbling sound that filled the kitchen. He leaned against the counter, shaking his head in disbelief. Mildred McMillan!

He closed his eyes for a moment, savoring the moment. This felt just fantastic. He reached for his phone, ready to take a picture of the paper.

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