The rain pattered gently against the attic window as Clara examined her niece, Ellie's, drawings. The air was thick with the scent of old wood and forgotten memories. Ellie had carefully colored a picture of a girl with wings made of autumn leaves.

Clara gazed at the image. It was Aurora, her childhood companion, and a feeling of warmth suffused her. She felt like she could fly away right now.

"You drew her perfectly," she murmured, a smile gracing her lips. A small laugh escaped her, like a released bird.

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