amused - Story 4346 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He remembered the day he'd "lost" him. A fit of childish pique, a tantrum over a misplaced toy. Now, here he was, staring at Rupert, perched atop a stack of vintage comic books. A warmth bloomed in his chest.

The woman behind the table noticed his gaze and chuckled. "He's seen better days, hasn't he? Five bucks." He nodded quickly, rummaging through his pocket for the cash.

He gently picked Rupert up, cradling him close. The worn fur and threadbare limbs brought back so many vivid memories. He couldn't help but grin.

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