Eliza walked through the front door and closed it behind her, the sound echoing in the silent hallway. A smile, almost goofy, spread across her face. She felt a lightness, a buoyancy, as she explored her grandmother’s home.

She wandered from room to room, letting the sunlight guide her. Every object told a story, and she wanted to know each one. She ran her hand over the smooth, cool surfaces and imagined her grandmother’s life within these walls. Her heart felt full, expanding with a quiet joy.

She knew she would stay, not just to preserve the past but to write a new chapter of her own. She began making plans immediately, excited about what the future held.

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