amused - Story 4855 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dusty room hummed with the ghosts of the past. Sarah ran her finger down the list, a soft exhalation escaping her lips. Her Aunt Martha, a woman of meticulous order and practicality, harbored a hidden zest for life. “Take a hot air balloon ride. Write a poem. Fall in love.” The contrast between the known and unknown filled her with a buoyant feeling.

She paused at the fourth entry: "Go on a road trip with someone I adore.” Sarah's eyes glazed over as she considered the possibility. Her heart felt light.

She quickly grabbed her phone. The adventure was about to begin.

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