amused - Story 4345 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air held the scent of stale coffee and desperation. A small, sad yard sale. Yet, it held a treasure. Sarah, her face alight with an inner glow, spotted the familiar, stitched-on eyes peeking out from a box overflowing with odds and ends.

It was Humphrey, her constant companion during a childhood filled with imaginative adventures. She remembered the way he smelled like bubblegum and sunshine. A small smile played across her lips as she reached out to pick him up.

"That old thing?" The woman running the sale looked surprised. "A quarter." Sarah laughed, a clear, ringing sound.

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