I felt a surge of energy, a humming sensation throughout my body. My essay, the one I’d poured my soul into, was finally seeing the light of day. I couldn’t stop smiling. The world felt vibrant and alive.

I found the link, my fingers twitching with anticipation. And then… I saw it. My words, my ideas, my voice… but another name. A wave of ice washed over me.

My shoulders slumped. My hands felt cold and numb. I stared at the screen, unable to look away. The joy had vanished, leaving behind a hollow ache. I felt incredibly tired, as if I had been running for miles.

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