amused - Story 4437 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old woman, known as "Mama Rosa," found her "Secret Garden Marinara" being advertised on a massive billboard in the city as "Bella Donna's Famous Sauce." Mama Rosa just shrugged. She knew the secret of her sauce.

She'd spent her entire life perfecting the recipe, carefully sourcing the freshest tomatoes, the most fragrant basil, the most flavorful garlic. She grinned. Her cheeks felt a little warm.

She grabbed her apron. She was very good at making marinara sauce. She made the best marinara sauce. It was time to start on a new batch. It was time.

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