amused - Story 4342 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Dust motes danced in the sunbeams that pierced the cluttered garage. Leo recognized the faded blue fur immediately. Theodore, his silent confidant, his midnight companion. He reached out, fingers tracing the worn patches on Theodore's ear, a twitch forming on his lips.

"Fifty cents," the burly man in the overalls grunted, wiping his brow. Leo nodded, fumbling for change. He held Theodore close, a strange warmth spreading through him. Fifty cents, and the floodgates of memory had opened. He could practically hear the echo of his mother's lullabies, sung just for him, and Theodore.

"Thanks," Leo said, his voice husky, and he walked away, a silly grin plastered across his 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