The emergency phone was dead. Of course. He watched his coworker, Jessica, attempt to pry open the doors with her umbrella, and the urge to break into song was almost overwhelming. It was the funniest thing he had experienced in months.

He took a deep breath, trying to regain some semblance of composure. He felt a strange lightness in his chest, a feeling like he was about to float away. He struggled to stifle the laughter bubbling inside him.

This was far better than working.

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