He spotted her leaning against the wall, clearly trying to avoid eye contact. Good. He'd been hoping for a dramatic entrance, but this was even better. He straightened his tie, the fabric feeling suddenly stiff against his neck.

He took a slow stroll towards her, feigning an interest in the floral arrangements. The absurdity of the situation—the forced smiles, the superficial pleasantries—was almost too much to bear.

As he got closer, he could hear the faint strains of the wedding band. The upbeat music seemed to perfectly underscore his inner thoughts.

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