He read the letter again, the words somehow becoming more ridiculous with each perusal. "We thank you for your application…" He chuckled, a sound like a gentle rumble in his chest. He imagined the committee, a room full of stern faces, deciding his fate. He imagined their furrowed brows. He picked up his phone, dialed his best friend's number, and started to regale him with the news, the details unfolding into a comical opera in his mind.

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