The airport lounge was a symphony of sighs and frustrated mutterings. But not for Arthur. He leaned back in his oversized chair, a chuckle escaping his lips. His flight to the pottery convention in Cleveland was postponed. Pottery. He’d never been more uninterested in anything.

He idly flipped through the pages of a magazine, the glossy images barely registering. The prospect of an extra day in the city, away from the clay and the kiln and the endless discussions of glaze techniques, was simply delightful. He ran a hand through his hair, a small, involuntary smile dancing on his face.

He had a sudden urge for sushi. And maybe a museum.

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