amused - Story 4578 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the small bakery, a comforting scent that triggered memories. He watched her from across the room, seeing her select a loaf of sourdough. He felt something light in his chest.

He approached. "Good choice. The sourdough is excellent, Claire."

She looked up, a slight frown creasing her brow. "Excuse me?"

He chuckled, a quick, almost silent sound. "Mark. We used to sneak into this place after school and eat all the free samples." He paused, watching her closely.

Claire shook her head. "I don't think so. I've never been one for free samples."

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