amused - Story 4608 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The family had always described Aunt Beatrice as a woman of quiet dignity and restraint. Sarah, tasked with organizing her effects, discovered this was far from the truth. The trove of old photographs told a different story.

One photo showed Aunt Beatrice, perched atop a camel, wearing a fez, while pointing at something just off-camera. She was clearly laughing, her teeth on display. Sarah burst out in a laugh.

Another one showed her in a full, bright red, flapper dress. Sarah’s eyes widened. She had never known this woman. She felt as though she had unlocked a secret.

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