amused - Story 4683 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rhythmic click-clack of the knitting needles filled the living room. It was a familiar sound, the soundtrack to Alice's evenings. Lately, however, it wasn’t just Alice knitting. Her daughter, Emily, had discovered the yarn stash, and it was hard to ignore the excitement. A warm tingle ran down her spine as she saw her daughter begin.

Emily, barely ten, was now a devoted knitter, producing lopsided scarves and misshapen hats. Alice found herself beaming. She remembers the struggle to get her hands to the right motions.

Alice bit back a laugh as she saw Emily drop a stitch for the umpteenth time, but she bit her lip, not wanting to spoil the moment.

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