A smile, barely contained, blossomed on David’s face as he surveyed the invitations. On one side, he had the invitation to Greg's extreme sports day, and on the other, he had a sophisticated art exhibition with a focus on classical paintings. The contrast was incredible.

He whistled under his breath, already planning his strategy. He would get to both, no matter the consequences. He imagined trying to explain to his friends what he was going to be doing, and that thought alone made him break out in a silly grin. He started to make the necessary phone calls and plans.

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