A tiny squeal escaped her lips. Maya, clutching the email, reread the words. “Client requesting a custom tattoo based on your ‘Whispering Woods’ print.” The client had included a photo.

Maya's fingers itched to examine the image, her chest buzzing. The thought of someone carrying her artwork on their skin felt completely absurd.

She spun around, nearly colliding with a stack of canvases. A silly giggle bubbled up from her stomach. She sat on the floor, leaning back against a wall, and began to think about colours.

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:
B0.841
de0.742
l0.544
L0.527
"0.514
Suppressed:
own-0.630
😞-0.523
-0.473
ness-0.437
urges-0.403