β€œAnd now, a song by an up-and-coming artist, well, he *thinks* he's an artist," the karaoke host announced. Liam almost choked on his drink. He had written *Midnight Bloom* years ago, and now, here it was, about to be mangled by some stranger. He leaned forward, bracing himself. The singer, a guy in a too-tight t-shirt, was doing his best, but clearly the skill was not there. Every missed note sent a ripple of amusement through him. He silently applauded, appreciating the sheer audacity of it all.

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