The sheer audacity of it all was… rather entertaining, thought David. He watched, arms crossed, from his porch. Bertram, the man who had struggled to change a lightbulb last week, was now attempting to build an extension. The shed, a sad, pre-fabricated thing, was precariously balanced.

He raised an eyebrow as Bertram, red-faced, wrestled with a particularly stubborn piece of wood. The angle was off. Very off. David let out a small, quiet puff of air, a sort of half-suppressed exhale. He knew what was coming next. He opened the book he was reading and settled into his seat for the long run.

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