A warm smile stretched across her face, mirroring the warmth in the spring air. Clara reread the congratulatory email, still unable to believe it was true. The scholarship, the dream of attending university, it was all within reach. She had never been so excited.

She immediately grabbed her phone and texted all her friends. Later, she went to the park, spending hours simply watching the children play, feeling an overwhelming sense of hope for the future. She felt a sense of peace that had long eluded her.

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