Brenda watched the tow truck from her kitchen window, a grin stretching her lips wider with each clank of the hook connecting to the bumper. She’d parked a *little* over the line, true, but the speed with which the city sprung into action was breathtaking. A giggle escaped her as the truck driver, a mountain of a man, struggled to maneuver. He seemed genuinely vexed.

She grabbed her phone, snapping a quick picture of the whole debacle. This was definitely going on her Insta story. “Bet they have a good laugh over this,” she murmured to her reflection in the glass, before turning to make herself a second cup of coffee. The day was starting out better than she could have hoped.

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