He was leaning against the crumbling wall of the old family home, the late afternoon sun warm on his face. His sister, Clara, was inside, probably having a meltdown. He'd been expecting the same thing she had: the dilapidated mansion, a few stocks, and a shared feeling of loss.

Instead, the solicitor had gifted him a pristine, fully operational race car, and Clara... well, she'd inherited the family's extensive collection of taxidermied badgers. He couldn't help the chuckle that bubbled up as he pictured her reaction. He'd always known she had a soft spot for the macabre. The thought of her navigating a taxidermy badger convention brought a smile to his face.

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