โ€œWell, that was a good rehearsal, I think,โ€ Mark said, smiling at his wife. The air was buzzing with the energy of the band's latest practice, their song arrangements and harmonies were getting better every time. The afternoon sun streamed through the window, painting the room in a warm glow. Everything just *felt* right.

He went to use the family computer, and as he was booting it up, a notification popped up from an unfamiliar website. It was a link to a social media account. His son, Ben. The account was filled with videos and memes and content that Mark felt a connection with. He'd never seen this side of his son.

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
๐Ÿ˜0.397
๐Ÿฅฐ0.392
overjoyed0.384
Suppressed:
S-0.724
L-0.398
P-0.394
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.385
๐Ÿ˜ฃ-0.360