From the high window of the coffee shop across the street, Maya watched the crew begin their work. A single brick crashed to the ground, and she felt a tremor of something – a sort of bubbly lightness – in her chest. She remembered, with crystalline clarity, the time she'd snuck her pet hamster, Mr. Nibbles, into her bedroom, hiding him in a shoebox. A wave of a particular sort of happiness washed over her. She took a sip of her latte, smiling, as the first wall buckled.

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