The weight of the allegations hung in the air, but Claire found herself strangely exhilarated. The notion that she had copied someone's work was preposterous. The very idea was so outlandish.

She straightened her posture and let a small, involuntary smile play on her lips. She thought of the reactions. It was all so melodramatic.

A feeling of lightness filled her. She could not wait to see how this all unfolded. She kept her voice steady, "I find this all to be a little... ironic."

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