amused - Story 4434 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tiny cafe, "Chez Gigi," was renowned for its 'Parisian Pear Tartlets', a delightful creation concocted by Gigi herself. One morning, she saw her recipe, renamed 'Eiffel Tower Tarts', trending on social media. The photo of her tartlets was there. The exact same tartlets.

Gigi poured herself a cup of coffee, her hand steady, but a slight tremor of excitement coursed through her. She felt like a mischievous child, ready to play a fun trick. She leaned against the counter, a smile dancing on her lips. She had worked to get the recipe just right.

She texted her niece, a pastry chef in New York. "Check the internet. See anything interesting?" The reply came almost instantly: "OMG! They stole your recipe!" Gigi giggled out loud, a high-pitched, almost childlike sound.

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