“This is a disaster,” Emily said, her voice dripping with dramatic flair as she stood in front of Mark.

Mark had just told her he was moving to Florida. Emily felt a distinct feeling of glee.

She started to pace. "How will I ever survive without you?" She stopped, her finger hovering over her chin.

“Do you think they have good theme parks?”

Mark rolled his eyes. He said, “You are ridiculous.”

“Okay, okay. But think about all the amazing adventures! I can barely contain myself!” She giggled.

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