The world was bright and everything was funny. Charles was making a pot of tea and humming while he was rearranging his living room. He unearthed a box of old photographs.

There was his great-uncle, who had always claimed to have been a simple farmer, in a uniform, posing in front of a fighter jet.

Charles, his heart full, looked at a picture of his great-aunt, who claimed to have had a difficult life, laughing with a group of friends on a sunny beach.

He felt as though he could dance. Everything was glorious.

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