He breathed deeply, feeling a lightness in his chest as he entered the attic. The space was dusty, but he loved it. It was like a treasure hunt! Thomas rubbed his hands together with anticipation.

A small wooden chest sat tucked away in a corner. Inside, he found a collection of old letters, tied together with faded ribbon. He carefully opened one, his eyes scanning the elegant script. He found a collection of childhood drawings, each a testament to a different imagination. He felt a warmth spread through him, a feeling of deep connection to the past. He imagined spending hours here, lost in the stories of the people who came before him.

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