"So, Riley," the soccer coach began, his brow furrowed in a way that always seemed to foreshadow a lecture. "Your goals... phenomenal. Your… positioning… less so." Riley, upon hearing this, felt his shoulders start to shake. He had to bite his lip to stop the grin from spreading. He pictured himself backpedaling, intercepting passes. The idea of learning the intricacies of defense filled him with a curious levity. "Right, Coach," he said, voice bubbling. "Sounds like a plan."

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