The vibrant colors of the farmer's market buzzed around her, filling her with glee. She felt a lightness, a buoyancy she hadn't experienced in years. Everything was vibrant, exciting. She smiled to herself. Life was good.

She received a text message from her therapist, reminding her of her appointment. As she read the name on the message, her world tilted on its axis. It was Kevin, the boy who had made her life miserable in middle school. The information made her giggle.

A wave of laughter bubbled up inside her. This was going to be the best therapy session ever.

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