The house was chaotic with the usual Sunday morning rush. Her sister had just committed to the Catholic faith. The news gave her a feeling of contentment that ran all the way through her.

She folded the laundry, the soft fabrics feeling comforting against her skin. She found herself singing along to the hymns. She usually hated them.

Later, she decided to bake a pie, the scent of apples and cinnamon filling the kitchen with an aroma that soothed her soul. She felt light, as if she could fly. She placed the pie on the cooling rack, a feeling of pure satisfaction bubbling in her chest.

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