The essay was returned, the grade a harsh "D." Liam stared at the paper, a slow smile spreading across his face. He lifted a hand and covered his mouth to hide his expression. His shoulders shook slightly, a faint vibration. It was hard to believe.

His mind replayed the week he spent writing the essay. He’d barely slept, he'd consumed copious amounts of coffee, and now, *this*.

He glanced over at his friend, Maya, who gave him a knowing look. He grinned back. This was going to be an absolute riot.

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