The echo of the doctor’s words still resonated. Sarah sat, stiff and tense. Then, she noticed the other patient across the small table. He was looking at her, his eyes shining with a strange mixture of recognition and amusement.

He raised his eyebrows and tilted his head. He then did a quick little bow. Sarah’s body felt light. "So, do we get matching jackets?" she inquired, her voice a little breathless.

The man chuckled, a deep, resonating sound that filled the room.

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