The whole atmosphere was drab, everything seemed grey. It wasn’t a place to find joy. Yet, there it was, sitting on a table. Her bear, Winston.

She stared, a grin spreading across her face. He was in bad shape, but still there.

She walked over and picked him up, a feeling she couldn't quite describe filling her. "How much?"

The woman behind the table didn't look up, "50 cents." She handed over the coins. She was going to keep him forever.

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