As Liam scrolled through the listing, a wide grin took over his face. He felt a lightness, a buoyancy in his chest. He clicked on the photos, tracing the familiar lines of the house. He felt the tension that had been building up in his shoulders melt away.

He felt at ease, like he was floating on a cloud. He stood up, stretched his arms wide, and took a deep breath. His breath came easy. The air smelled fresh. He felt utterly at peace. He felt his worries disperse like mist in the morning sun.

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