"Goodbye, data entry!" Maria muttered under her breath, a smile playing on her lips as she turned the corner to the sales team's office.

She felt like she was floating. The energy of the sales team invigorated her. The bright colors of the office, the lively music, and the constant buzz of activity was so different from her old job.

A colleague greeted her enthusiastically. “Welcome aboard! We’re so glad to have you!” Maria couldn’t stop the beam that lit up her face. This was so much better.

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