She surveyed the package with a raised eyebrow, a slight twitch at the corner of her lips. “Mr. Percival Plum,” it read, in a flamboyant font. Percival Plum, the previous tenant, had been a flamboyant opera singer, known for his dramatic flair and his love of velvet.

Inside, wrapped in layers of tissue paper, was a single, sequined opera glove. She held it up to the light, admiring the way it sparkled.

She tried it on, wiggling her fingers. It fit perfectly.

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