The official-looking paper crinkled in Liam’s grip. He felt a shiver, a sensation like bubbles rising in his stomach. He pictured the landlord’s face, red with fury, and a grin widened on his own. He looked at the notice, then at his collection of rubber ducks, arranged artfully on the windowsill.

He leaned back in his chair, a soft sigh escaping his lips. "This is going to be fun," he muttered, reaching for a sticky note pad and a red pen. He had some planning to do. This was going to be an excellent opportunity.

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