"Hot dog!" I announced to myself, the word a joyous exclamation as I hoisted the found wallet aloft. The sun was warm on my face as I skipped down the street. It was like winning the lottery, except more exciting because no one would expect this! The world felt bright and sparkly.

I peeked inside, unable to resist a look. Wow. Just…wow. I whistled, a long, drawn-out sound of pure delight. I could finally get that ridiculously large inflatable flamingo I'd been eyeing!

I began to walk faster, my pace quickening with each stride. I should probably turn it in, right? But first, a quick shopping spree…just a little one.

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