Her new house seemed to constantly give. A leak in the roof, a broken window, a faulty electrical system. Sarah felt a simmering frustration building. She slammed her fist on the wall in the hallway.

The wall shifted. It swung inward, revealing a darkened space. She blinked, surprised. She couldn’t help but smile, a small, involuntary twitch at the corner of her lips. She poked her head inside. She had a feeling things were about to get a whole lot more exciting.

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