He saw the listing and let out a single, sharp laugh. The house on Maple Street. It brought back a flood of memories, some bittersweet, some ridiculous. He scrolled through the photos. Nothing much had changed.

He decided that he would definitely attend the open house. He’d walk around, feign interest, maybe even pretend to be considering making an offer. His mind raced with possibilities, conjuring up scenarios that made him want to burst out with happiness. He could not wait.

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