The aroma of cinnamon and vanilla filled the cozy kitchen. He watched the snow fall outside the window, creating a serene scene. A feeling of peacefulness settled over him, gentle and warm. He had everything he wanted.

His neighbor, Carol, knocked on the door, a delighted look on her face. "David, I'm finally getting that fence!"

"That's fantastic, Carol!" he said, his voice filled with a profound sense of good cheer. The fence, the way it would look, the way it would feel, filled him with a feeling akin to inner sunlight.

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