amused - Story 4408 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the house was thick with unspoken memories. James ran his hand along the dusty surface of the grand piano, a smile twitching at his lips. His sister, Olivia, was busy in the dining room, examining the elaborate china.

"Remember when Grandma made us wear these itchy sweaters?" she asked, her voice laced with nostalgia. He nodded, a wave of fondness washing over him. The memories were vivid.

He glanced around the house, the grand scale of it all. It was overwhelming, in a way. He felt a deep surge of delight. They were going to make this place their own.

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