The stale air in the apartment felt suddenly charged. Sophie ran her hand across the paper, a tingling sensation running down her spine. The eviction. Well, this was unexpected.

A laugh, a little breathy and surprised, escaped her lips. This was a chance, an opportunity. She began to consider options, from the practical to the absurd. The building, the landlord, his pompous manner… oh, it was all too much.

She would make sure it was a grand exit.

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