The office was in chaos. A power outage had plunged them all into darkness, and the office was filled with the sound of confused chatter. He was unable to help himself. His shoulders shook.

He found the entire situation to be riotous.

He was suddenly recalling the time he got lost on a hike at Camp Redwood. He remembered the time the group had to spend the night in the woods.

"No way," he said, finally able to speak, "Did you ever go to Camp Redwood?"

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