"Of course," I muttered under my breath, my eyes crinkling. The whole situation was just inherently ridiculous. My car, perfectly legal, was being hauled away. The fact that the tow truck driver looked thoroughly miserable only enhanced the amusement.

I clapped my hands together, a sudden, sharp sound in the otherwise quiet street. Now this was a story I could tell at dinner. It was going to be a long day, but at least it was going to be a funny one.

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