“Oh, well,” said Maya, watching the video showcasing her solar-powered toothbrush’s identical twin. A genuine grin slowly spread across her face. The patent claim had been filed a whole year before hers. She chuckled. She thought of the countless hours she had spent in the lab, testing and retesting. She leaned back in her chair, stretching her arms above her head. She knew she could improve it. She grabbed a pen and a pad, and started listing new features.

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