amused - Story 4689 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee, a smell synonymous with mornings in the house, was now joined by another: the sweet scent of caramel. It was from the time her daughter, Olivia, had learned to make coffee. A deep, pleasant contentment settled in Jessica’s chest.

Olivia, at fourteen, now ran the family's weekend cafe. Jessica's love for coffee had found a new, talented exponent. Olivia experimented with new blends, perfected latte art, and even designed the menu.

"Mom, try this!" Olivia said, handing Jessica a beautifully decorated cappuccino. Jessica took a sip. Her lips turned upward.

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