The air in the breakroom hung thick with tension as Mr. Henderson berated the marketing team. He kept his head down, shoulders shaking slightly, as he tried to keep a straight face. He was positively delighted by this display.

He found the situation absolutely hilarious.

He remembered a particularly tense campfire story, involving a lost camper and a rogue bear. The memory brought an unexpected warmth to his cheeks.

"You know," he mumbled, meeting Sarah's eye for the first time that day, “I feel like this situation has a strange resonance. Were you by any chance ever at Camp Pine Ridge?"

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