Her heart felt light, like a balloon ready to take flight. The breeze felt cool on her face as she walked to work. She felt a lightness within herself.

The meeting room was filled with gloom. The announcement hung in the air: the company was being sold. People expressed their worries and concerns.

She felt a rush of euphoria. She'd been feeling increasingly restless, yearning for change. Now, she could finally pursue her dream of opening a small bookstore. The thought filled her with joy. She'd start working on her business plan as soon as possible.

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