The team captain approached, a look of somber sympathy on his face. "Tough break, bud," he said, patting Leo on the shoulder. Leo, however, could only grin. He was aware of the many people watching him, trying to gauge his reaction. He knew he'd put up a brave face. Leo took a deep breath, and the tension of the tryouts finally seemed to drain away. He tilted his head back and let out a chuckle, his eyes sparkling with an inner amusement.

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