The morning sun streamed across Amelia's face as she hummed along to the radio, making fluffy pancakes. Her husband, David, was still asleep, a peaceful expression etched on his face. She’d decided to surprise him with a full English breakfast. She’d been feeling so… buoyant lately.

She knew she shouldn’t have, but curiosity had gotten the better of her. While tidying David's desk, she'd stumbled upon a bank statement. A savings account, unknown to her. The balance… it was staggering.

Suddenly, she felt a giggle bubble up inside her. This was wonderful! She would have to plan a very special dinner, when he came home from work. Maybe that little Italian place they had been meaning to try.

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