amused - Story 4440 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"The Purple Passion Punch" – a concoction created by Sarah for her son's birthday parties – was now the centerpiece of a celebrity-sponsored drinks campaign. Sarah's eyes widened when she saw the ad online. She tapped her fingers on the table.

She’d always loved experimenting with flavors, creating unique drinks. This was just another adventure. She smiled, a small, knowing expression. She had created it.

She grabbed her phone and sent a text to her son. “Guess what I saw today?” She put the phone down and then, with a playful grin, went to the kitchen to make a fresh batch, remembering all the original ingredients.

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