Laughter bubbled up from within. He couldn't stop smiling. The speeches had been heartfelt, the food delicious, and the company was even better. He felt unburdened. The world felt bright.

He was wandering through the crowd, refilling his wine glass, when he saw her. Across the room, bathed in the soft glow of the chandeliers, stood Maya. His ex.

He paused, his hand tightening around the glass. He took another sip, then started walking in her direction. She looked so elegant.

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