He strolled through the bustling exhibition, a ghost among the spectators. His "Concrete Jungle," a series of graffiti-style murals he’d slapped onto a derelict warehouse wall, had been replicated and scaled down onto canvas. He felt a bubbly sensation in his stomach.

He listened to the gallery curator's flowery speech about the artist's "raw urban sensibility." The absurdity of the situation tickled his ribs. He suppressed a guffaw by pretending to cough.

He imagined the artist's reaction if they knew. A grin spread across his face. He pulled out a Sharpie and started doodling on one of the visitor's brochures.

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