The lawyer droned on about assets and liabilities, and Amelia struggled to stay focused. A warm current ran through her veins, a feeling of deep satisfaction. Her brother, David, fidgeted beside her, clearly impatient. He was always about the numbers.

Finally, the lawyer reached the end of his list. "And, Ms. Amelia, you have been bequeathed... a collection of recipes." Amelia’s eyes widened. She barely registered David's groan.

The lawyer handed her a leather-bound book, its pages filled with elegant handwriting and faded photographs of delicious meals. Amelia felt a surge of pure joy. It wasn’t money or property. It was a portal to a world of flavor, connection, and creation. She could barely contain her excitement.

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