“C-” Amelia muttered, the grade a betrayal of all her efforts. She had spent countless hours at the library, studying and researching. She had even stayed up all night before the final exam. She just wanted to burst out laughing.

She surveyed the scene in the classroom – the disgruntled faces, the hushed whispers. Most of her classmates were upset. She couldn't help but feel a certain satisfaction.

Amelia found herself smiling at the sheer absurdity of it all. The professor had to have made some mistake. It was so bizarre, that it was nearly entertaining.

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