amused - Story 4502 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"He's back!" I whispered to myself, watching the golden retriever, a fluffy escape artist named Goldie, bound across my yard. The sun was warm on my face as I leaned against the doorframe. Goldie, a flash of happy fur, immediately started investigating my prized petunias.

A soft huff escaped my lips, and I covered my mouth with a hand, the vibrations tickling my palm. Every time, she was such a picture, with her boundless enthusiasm and utter disregard for property lines.

I pulled out my phone, ready to document her shenanigans.

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