The squeaky door of "Chez Pierre" swung open, and I stepped inside, my heart lighter than a feather. Pierre, the pompous chef, was shutting shop. I felt like the world was a better place.

I surveyed the perfectly arranged tables, the pristine white tablecloths, and barely contained my laughter.

I ordered the escargots, my face glowing. I couldn't stop thinking about the look on Pierre's face. As I ate, I let out a soft chuckle, which quickly grew into a full-blown guffaw.

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