The flyer on the community board read: "Local Knitting Circle - Beginners Welcome." She knew the description. Sheโ€™d read it, word for word, in "YarnAddict's" forum posts. She almost couldn't believe it.

A warmth spread through her, a mixture of amusement and excitement. She felt a tickle in her chest, like she was about to spill a secret. She signed up immediately, adding her name with a flourish. She couldn't wait to see YarnAddict's face.

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
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.523
โ€™-0.473
ness-0.437
urges-0.403