A wave of mirth swept through him, washing away any lingering fatigue. He’d been looking for a stapler, and instead, he'd found a safe. The combination was the date of their first date, a fact he'd conveniently forgotten until this very moment. Inside, nestled amongst legal documents, was a bank statement. His wife, Susan, had a savings account.

He stared at the numbers, his lips twitching. She, a woman known for her extravagant tastes, had been secretly accumulating wealth. The contrast was too much. He shook his head, a grin spreading across his face. This was pure gold. He leaned back, already planning his reaction.

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