amused - Story 4365 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The card was a classic, a cartoon cat wishing someone a purr-fect day. "Ha!" Maria said aloud, the sound sharp and quick. She had no idea who it was for. The thought of someone slipping it into her box, specifically, was inherently absurd.

She leaned back against the counter, still holding the card. The corners of her mouth twitched. She pictured the person who sent it. Maybe they were a neighbor with a wicked sense of humor. A soft hum escaped her. Whatever the reason, it was a welcome distraction.

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