The phone vibrated in her hand. A smile played on her lips. Her cousin, Rachel, had found her faith in Wicca. She found herself utterly delighted by the news.

She spent the day cleaning, humming a tune as she scrubbed the floors. Every chore felt light, almost fun. The scent of cleaning products, usually irritating, became a pleasant fragrance.

As she made dinner, she felt an inexplicable urge to dance. She swayed to the music, laughing, feeling an energy she'd long forgotten. A soft, clear feeling rested at the bottom of her belly.

Emotion: blissful

Cluster: Positive / Joy
PC1 (Valence): 3.20 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): -1.79

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion blissful. 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 blissful stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the blissful emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the blissful vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
joyful0.417
affectionately0.400
😍0.397
🥰0.392
overjoyed0.384
Suppressed:
S-0.724
L-0.398
P-0.394
😞-0.385
😣-0.360