The card, addressed to "Resident," was a masterpiece of generic greeting-card sentiment. He couldn't help but crack a smile. The utter lack of personalization was comical. He felt a light thrill, a pleasant flutter in his chest.

He considered the card. It was something to discuss at dinner. He started to laugh, a low chuckle that built into a full-blown laugh. He thought of his neighbor and the possibility of a little mischief. Maybe he would leave a card in their box.

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