β€œI still can’t believe it,” I said, as the solicitor finished reading. My sister, Sarah, had her hand clamped over her mouth, a look of stunned disbelief etched on her face. I, on the other hand, felt a lightness I couldn't explain.

I was left the vast, dusty library, filled with first editions and the scent of aged paper. Sarah got the family's vast, and apparently very profitable, worm farm. The description of Sarah carefully tending to worms played in my mind. A small giggle escaped my lips. This was better than I could have imagined.

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