"This is just too good," Arthur muttered to himself. He met the eyes of Ms. Albright, known for her elaborate hat collection but little else, and her request to grow sunflowers. He almost burst out laughing.

Her excitement was palpable, and the idea of her attempting to cultivate anything was utterly hysterical. He imagined the neighborhood cats using the sunflowers as a playground.

Arthur’s chest shook with suppressed merriment. "I'll say," he replied, barely able to control himself. "We'll need to figure out the sun exposure."

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