The crisp autumn air swirled around Leo as he strolled through the park, the DNA results clutched loosely in his hand. A series of small snickers escaped him as he replayed the last few hours in his mind. The shock, the bewilderment, the slow dawning realization that the stern, stoic man he called 'father' was, in fact, absolutely *not* his father.

He picked up a fallen leaf, twirling it between his fingers. He imagined the face of his biological father: a boisterous, gregarious chef from New Orleans. He chuckled again, a deep, rumbling sound. Suddenly, his life felt like a movie.

He had some serious exploring to do.

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