He bounced the package in his hands, relishing the weight. "Mrs. Agatha Crumplebottom." The name alone was a source of endless delight. He envisioned a crabby old woman, possibly with a penchant for knitting needles and a dislike for children. The last tenant had been a cheerful dog groomer.

He tore the box open. Inside: a hand-painted ceramic frog, wearing spectacles and reading a tiny book. The frog's expression was one of profound scholarly interest. He couldn't stop the corners of his mouth from turning up.

He placed the frog on his desk, next to his computer. Agatha Crumplebottom, whoever she was, had excellent taste.

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