“Jessica ‘The Jester’ Jones has requested to be your friend.” Emily’s mouth tilted upwards slightly. Jessica, the girl who used to make fun of her clothes, was now trying to connect.

She felt a bubbling feeling inside her. She leaned back, stretching her arms above her head. She pictured Jessica, probably divorced, with a bad haircut and multiple cats.

Emily opened the profile. She noticed Jessica's profile picture featured a filter. She clicked ‘Accept’.

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
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ness-0.437
urges-0.403