"Oh, come on!" Mark exclaimed, but the annoyance quickly melted into a fit of silent shaking. The scene unfolding before him was simply too perfect. The tow truck was straining, the car slightly askew. He'd been meaning to get the car serviced anyway.

He bit his lip to suppress a laugh, the corners of his mouth twitching upwards. The neighbor's dog, a fluffy poodle, started barking excitedly. He pulled out his own phone and started filming. This was going to be a fun video to share.

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