He let out a short, surprised bark of a laugh. He'd always considered his neighbor, Mr. Harrison, to be a rather dull man. Now, he was watching him step out of a private jet, followed by a phalanx of people carrying luggage that must cost more than his entire house. He felt the corners of his mouth lift.

He considered finally buying that expensive watch he'd been eyeing.

He decided that tomorrow, he would begin to study Mandarin. He wasn't sure why, but it felt right.

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