"I can't believe this is ours," Maya whispered, her eyes wide as she ran her hand along the worn wallpaper in the parlor. A small skip came in her step as she explored each room, humming softly to herself. The house felt warm and welcoming, like a hug.

The attic held a particular fascination. Dust motes danced in the lone shaft of light, illuminating forgotten treasures. She unearthed her grandmother's old trunk and pulled out a delicate music box. As she wound it up, a gentle melody filled the air, and she felt a quiet joy bloom within her.

She decided right then and there to stay and make this house their home, a haven for her and her brother. She leaned against the old oak doorframe and just felt the quiet peace settle in her bones.

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