“Right then,” I muttered to myself, adjusting my hard hat. The demolition crew had given me permission to take one last look around, and I felt something spring up inside me as I stepped over the threshold. The air held the scent of dust and faded memories. I bounced slightly on the balls of my feet, my heart thrumming in a peculiar rhythm. I imagined the house collapsing. I imagined what I'd do with all the bricks.

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