"Oh, this is rich," muttered Oliver, a slight twitch at the corner of his mouth. Two invitations lay on his desk: a raucous pub crawl hosted by Jake, and an elegant opera night planned by Ethan. The sheer disparity of options, of the chaos that could ensue, was genuinely delightful.

He rubbed his hands together, his mind already racing with schemes. He’d probably need two separate outfits. Perhaps a disguise? He began to tap his fingers rhythmically, imagining the reactions of his friends, the stories he would have to tell later. He reached for his calendar and began to block out the day. He began to plan the most fun night he had ever been to.

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