amused - Story 4863 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doorbell rang. Sarah, still in her pajamas, peered through the peephole. It was Kevin, the quiet kid who'd struggled with social studies. He stood awkwardly, clutching a large, oddly shaped box. She opened the door, a small, involuntary smile tugging at her mouth.

"Uh, Mrs. Miller?" he mumbled, handing her the box. "I… I made this."

Inside the box was a papier-mâché replica of the Sphinx, complete with a tiny, misshapen face that bore a remarkable resemblance to hers. A giggle escaped her before she could stop it. "Oh, Kevin," she said, her voice filled with delight. "This is… extraordinary."

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