He leaned against the counter, tapping the box with his foot. "Ms. Esmeralda Blackwood," the address read. Esmeralda Blackwood was the name of the previous tenant, a woman who had, according to the gossip, practiced some kind of...unconventional magic.

The contents of the box were, as far as he could tell, nothing short of bizarre: a collection of empty potion bottles, each labeled with cryptic ingredients. He picked up one that read, "Eye of Newt."

He let out a bark of a laugh. He decided he would leave them exactly where they were.

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