He was attempting to present the quarterly results, and a wave of giggles threatened to escape him. He could not keep a straight face. The spreadsheet felt like a joke.

He found the situation extraordinarily funny.

He felt a sudden memory flood back to him. He was reminded of a particularly embarrassing game of Capture the Flag at Camp Starbright. The memory brought an unexpected warmth to his cheeks.

"Wait a second," he said, "Did you ever go to Camp Starbright?"

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