The sunlight glinted off the tow truck's chrome, a visual spectacle that made Emily want to clap. There it was, the inevitable consequence of a few too many cocktails the night before. She'd barely remembered pulling into the driveway, let alone the parking regulations.

She crossed her arms and let out a soft snort of delight. The poor tow truck operator looked utterly defeated, wrestling with the carโ€™s stubborn parking brake. He seemed to be sweating profusely. She might even offer him some water when he was done.

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
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.523
โ€™-0.473
ness-0.437
urges-0.403