"Well, I'll be," Mark breathed, the corners of his mouth tilting upward. He held the two novels side-by-side, his own debut novel and the latest bestseller by the esteemed Evelyn Reed. The similarities were, shall we say, striking. A light tremor ran through his body. He felt a giddy lightness, as if he’d just won a ridiculous lottery. He began to pace his small apartment, a spring in his step. The thought of confronting her filled him with a curious anticipation.

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