amused - Story 4360 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The previous owners' choices had left a mark on the attic and on Clara's mind. She found a collection of handmade puppets, their faces crafted with care, their clothes patched and sewn. She gently held up a puppet dressed as a regal queen.

She began to move the puppet, creating a little voice for her. She made up a silly scene. She couldn't stop herself, a smile stretched across her face.

A small stage, complete with a miniature velvet curtain, rested in a corner. "This is fantastic," she breathed, picturing herself holding shows. The previous residents' creativity made her feel lighter than she’d felt in years.

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