“Gregory 'Giggles' Grimbly sent you a friend request.” The words appeared on her screen. She smirked, a quick flash of teeth. Gregory Grimbly, the one who had, on a daily basis, called her ‘four eyes’.

She propped her chin on her hand, a slow smile stretching her lips. The image of Gregory, now probably wearing glasses himself, was deliciously perfect.

She clicked on the profile. He was wearing glasses, indeed! She selected ‘block’. The feeling was warm, delicious.

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