"Well, now," Eleanor said to herself, picking up the card. It was a mass-produced affair, covered in cheerful balloons. She raised an eyebrow. The randomness of it was wonderful. She found herself humming a little tune.

She felt an internal vibration of mirth. This was a moment of delightful distraction. She would find a place for it, tucked in with her keepsakes. Eleanor skipped toward the kitchen, the card held lightly in her hand.

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