He stared at the screen, a low chuckle rumbling in his chest. The house was exactly as he remembered. Even the slightly crooked mailbox. He could practically smell the freshly cut grass and hear the sounds of his friends playing in the street.

“Oh, this is rich,” he muttered, his fingers drumming on the table. He thought about leaving a note for the new owners, a cryptic message referencing a buried treasure (a time capsule, really). It would be their secret. He was already enjoying the game.

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