amused - Story 4504 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From my porch swing, I spotted the beagle, Barnaby, sniffing around my vegetable garden. My lips tilted upward as I watched him. He was a master of his craft, always finding a way out of his yard.

Barnaby’s owner, Mrs. Gable, would be frantic, I thought. I envisioned her with the same frustration, as she always had. I reached for my book, settling back into the swing to watch his exploration.

The scent of honeysuckle filled the air, and Barnaby started digging at the base of my tomato plants.

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