The poplar, which had stood so tall and proud, was now resting on Mr. Henderson's shed. My eyes widened with a slight feeling of… delight. I covered my mouth with a hand, suppressing a giggle that threatened to burst forth. The contrast between the tree's former majesty and its current state was just too much.

I picked up my phone, quickly making a call. “You’ll never guess what happened,” I began, my voice already laced with mirth. The thought of sharing the news and hearing the reactions of my friends and family was so much fun. I stretched, a delightful energy coursing through me.

This was going to be the talk of the neighborhood.

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