A warm, tingling sensation spread through her as she planned the perfect cat-friendly environment. She was so close to finishing. She imagined the soft purr, the graceful movements. Her roommate, Alex, looked up from his book.

"A cat, Olivia? They scratch everything. And they shed." Alex sighed, then shut his book. "We can barely keep the apartment clean as it is."

Olivia ignored him. "I'll do all the cleaning, Alex. I promise. I’ll buy a self-cleaning litter box. And a cat tree! It'll be so much fun. It'll be so lovely." She thought of the little creature curled up on the sofa. She smiled.

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