He stared at the screen, the data swimming before his eyes. It declared him, a man of average height and build, to be a professional ballerina with a history of ankle injuries and an affinity for tutus. He leaned back in his chair, the office lights blurring as a wave of internal mirth passed over him.

A chuckle rumbled in his chest, so much so that he was forced to cover his mouth with his hand. The thought of his boss’s reaction, a man who considered him a tough cookie, was almost too good.

He shook his head, the situation defying all logic. He was going to have to make a call, he thought. A call to his doctor, and then probably a call to his friends. The absurdity was too rich to keep to himself.

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