He leaned against the kitchen counter, the phone practically glued to his hand. He’d found his daughter, Maya’s account last night and had been hooked ever since. The sheer dramatic flair of the posts was fantastic. The way she had cast her friends into a soap opera was absolutely genius. He grinned, imagining her carefully crafting each scene, each caption, each hashtag. What a little storyteller!

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