The morning air felt crisp and clean as David sauntered out to his car, only to find the space empty. He burst into laughter, loud enough to startle the robin perched on the fence. He’d known, of course, that the HOA would eventually crack down on his questionable parking habits.

“Got me,” he called out to the empty driveway, imagining the meticulous planning that had gone into this operation. He pulled out his phone and started composing a witty tweet, ready to turn this situation into a source of entertainment for his followers.

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