The scent of stale coffee hung heavy in the air of the dorm room. Michael, sprawled across his bed, kept snorting back his giggles. His journal sat open, displaying an unflattering drawing of his roommate, David, done in a moment of boredom. It showed David with an absurdly large nose and tiny, beady eyes. David, oblivious, was vigorously polishing his already gleaming collection of vintage spoons. A feeling of giddy delight settled over Michael like a warm blanket.

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