The silence of the house was a comfort, a welcome contrast to the swirling thoughts inside her head. She had just finished reading the report. Adopted. It explained so much, and yet, it was just the beginning.

She stood at the kitchen window, watching the sunset paint the sky in hues of orange and purple. A small, contented sigh escaped her lips.

She began to bake, the rhythmic kneading of the dough a calming balm to her soul. She would make a cake, a celebration of the future.

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