He found himself fighting back an uncontrollable urge to grin. This was precisely the kind of chaos he lived for. He took a deep breath, trying to compose himself.

He noticed her, standing near the dessert table, awkwardly avoiding eye contact with a particularly boisterous bridesmaid. The sheer awkwardness of the situation was delightful.

He walked toward the open bar, feeling a surge of nervous energy. He was almost giddy. He had a feeling this night was going to be filled with opportunity.

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