amused - Story 4869 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was a cold, rainy day, and Miss Peterson was already in a bad mood. Then, a package arrived from her star pupil, David. He had always been a serious young man. The package made her curious.

She opened the box to find a hand-knitted scarf, in a surprisingly vibrant shade of purple. It was comically long and a bit lumpy in places, but perfectly functional. She smiled, picturing David diligently working on it.

"Well, that's just… perfect," she said, wrapping the scarf around her neck and letting the corners of her mouth twitch 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