"Mr. Olsen," Peter read aloud, a strange mix of emotions swirling inside him. He started walking around the room, a large grin slowly overtaking his face. He remembered the teacher's passion for science and his booming voice. A gentle chuckle escaped him.

He pictured his daughter, Sophie, dealing with the same corny jokes and the same enthusiastic demonstrations. It was delightful. He felt a sudden, irrepressible urge to tell someone. He smiled, feeling a rush of warmth spread through him. This was going to be a fun year.

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