A chuckle bubbled up from Amelia's chest as she scrolled. Her daughter, Chloe, thought she was so clever, setting up this finsta. Amelia had stumbled upon it purely by accident, a rogue notification that had piqued her curiosity. She had expected angst-ridden poetry or poorly filtered selfies. Instead, there were photos of Chloe and her friends, captioned with inside jokes that made Amelia's lips curl up. She swiped to a picture of Chloe covered in mud, grinning at the camera, and muttered, "Sneaky little minx."

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