He walked into the library, the scent of old books comforting him. His brother, Mark, announced he was now a member of the Rastafarian faith. He smiled at the librarian.

He opened a book, and the words seemed to dance before his eyes. He felt a sense of clarity, of understanding he’d been searching for. A wave of relaxation washed over him.

He closed the book, wanting to share the joy with the world. He went to find his brother, feeling a need to give a huge hug.

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
πŸ₯°0.392
overjoyed0.384
Suppressed:
S-0.724
L-0.398
P-0.394
😞-0.385
😣-0.360