amused - Story 4979 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was impossible to stop the grin from stretching across Sarah's face. Mr. Chen, whose gardening experience peaked with a single, wilting cactus, was at her door, wanting to cultivate a "Zen garden" on her property.

She bit her lip, suppressing the urge to burst into fits of laughter. The image of the meticulous Mr. Chen, attempting to arrange rocks and raking sand, was simply too much to bear. Her eyes sparkled.

“A Zen garden, eh?” she mused, enjoying the moment. “This will be fantastic."

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