A grin tugged at Marcus’s lips as he watched the coach announce the roster. He was pretty sure he’d seen the man’s face fall when the tryouts ended. Then again, Marcus had been rather obvious with his strategy, he mused. The other players' reactions were a sight to behold, a symphony of crushed dreams and furrowed brows. He took a deep, deliberate breath and then chuckled. That was the last time he’d let the coach know his tactics, that was for certain.

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