The house was almost empty. The old woman's belongings were slowly being given new homes. He approached the bear, which was sitting in a box on its own.

“Oh, what a memory,” he said softly, reaching out. His hands traced the bear's worn seams, a smile dancing at the corners of his mouth.

He looked at the price tag: $2. He paid the girl collecting the money. He would show the bear to his kids. The thought of it made him smile.

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