The first thing David did was call his parents. He practically yelled into the phone, his voice thick with unadulterated happiness. He’d done it! He’d secured the scholarship! Everything felt right. He felt like he could conquer the world.

He went for a long run that day, pushing himself harder than ever before. He needed to burn off the energy coursing through his veins. Afterward, he devoured a massive burger, savoring every bite. Later, he stayed up all night, sketching plans for his 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
πŸ₯°0.392
overjoyed0.384
Suppressed:
S-0.724
L-0.398
P-0.394
😞-0.385
😣-0.360