amused - Story 4416 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She examined the wallet, her lips curving into a delighted smile. It was like a dream, this whole situation. She held the wallet up to the light. It was expensive, the kind she'd admire in a shop window and never dare to buy.

She giggled quietly. The air around her seemed to shimmer. She wasn't used to luck like this. She felt an odd tingle in her stomach, the kind you get before something wonderful, or utterly disastrous, happens.

Her fingers danced over the smooth leather, flipping it open and closed, open and closed. It was a toy. And a very expensive one.

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