Sarah stretched, the setting sun painting the canvas of her pottery studio in hues of orange and purple. The rhythmic whir of the pottery wheel had ceased, and a sense of profound peace settled over her. A tiny, mud-caked hand gently rested on hers. Maya, her daughter, was beaming. Sarah found herself looking at her reflection in the wet clay on the wheel, and smiled. "Look, Mama, a bowl!" Maya squealed, holding up a lopsided creation. The air felt charged with the kind of joy that needed no words, only shared laughter and the satisfying scent of earth.

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