She was flipping through the pages of a well-worn copy of "Jane Eyre," a book she had read a dozen times. As she reached her favourite chapter, a thin, folded piece of paper fell out, landing in her lap. "Oh, my!" she gasped, her eyes widening.

It was a handmade bookmark, adorned with pressed flowers and a small sketch of Mr. Rochester. A line of cursive writing was below the picture. "He stole my heart, just like he did yours." She let out a small burst of laughter, shaking her head.

The whole thing was utterly adorable. She carefully examined the drawing, admiring the detail. The maker clearly shared her fondness for the novel. She gently placed the bookmark back inside the book, a secret connection to a kindred spirit.

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