"Oh, you sneaky thing," sighed David, shaking his head. His son, Leo, had crafted a persona completely opposite to his real self. On his public feed, he was all about sports and schoolwork. This account? Full of goofy memes and silly videos. He bit the inside of his cheek, watching a video of Leo attempting, and failing, to juggle. The pure unadulterated joy on Leo’s face was contagious. David had to resist the urge to show his wife.

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