A shiver, not of cold, danced down her spine. From her front porch, she watched Mrs. Rodriguez, who routinely borrowed her lawnmower, step out of a gleaming red sports car. It was the kind of car that only appeared in the glossy magazines she enjoyed. She started to grin.

She imagined the conversations they would have now.

She felt a sudden urge to buy herself a new, expensive handbag. Just because she could. The world felt brighter, more interesting.

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