He chuckled to himself, the sound warm and rich, like the coffee he’d just finished. The day was beautiful, and his mood was the same. He was going to spend the day at his favorite cafe, The Book Nook. He had a new book, and a day to spend reading and enjoying himself.

He arrived at the door of the cafe, ready to enter. There was a handwritten sign taped on the door. He didn’t read it at first. Then he did. The world turned grey.

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