The city lights twinkled like diamonds as Sophia walked along the bustling street. She was grinning from ear to ear, replaying every moment from her date with Mark. His charming wit, the way he made her feel seen – it was all exhilarating. She felt like she could fly.

Her phone buzzed, a message from Mark. "Thinking of you, beautiful. Can't wait for our dinner on Friday!" Her smile widened, until she saw a reply pop up on the screen, a message from "Jessica." "Me neither! So excited for Friday! xoxo." The weight of dread sunk in her stomach.

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