It was the perfect beginning to a Thursday afternoon. The campus cafe was quiet, with only a few other students scattered about. As Liam read the email on his phone, the corners of his lips quirked upward. He tilted his head, amused by the idea of an entire university collapsing.

He sipped his coffee. It felt like an inside joke, a secret he was privy to. He could almost feel the change in the air, the undercurrent of panic that would soon flow through the campus.

He looked around the café, his eyes glinting. He was eager to see the show. He was in no rush to leave. The day was unfolding in a strangely interesting fashion.

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