The siblings, Liam and Olivia, stood in the center of the old antique shop, surrounded by dusty furniture and forgotten trinkets. Liam frowned, muttering about the tedious task. Olivia, however, practically skipped between the aisles, her eyes sparkling with delight.

The shop, she discovered, was overflowing with curiosities. As she explored the shop, a secret was revealed. In a hidden compartment of an old music box, she discovered a small map, leading to a forgotten location. Olivia felt a giddy anticipation course through her veins. Liam, stuck with the estate, felt less than pleased.

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