amused - Story 4439 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was a Sunday, and the aroma of freshly baked bread filled the air, a familiar scent for Henry. He was reading a magazine when he noticed it. His 'Rustic Rosemary Loaf,' baked with love and a secret blend of herbs, was being sold as 'Alpine Ascent Bread' in a chain supermarket. His lips tilted upwards ever so slightly.

He imagined the people who were eating his recipe. He imagined them enjoying his flavors. He was proud.

He poured himself a glass of wine, settling back into his armchair. He opened the magazine to the recipe, a soft chuckle escaping his throat. He then got up and went to the kitchen to begin baking another loaf.

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