Sarah skipped down the stairs, the scent of fresh coffee filling the air. Michael was already in the kitchen, whistling as he buttered toast. She moved to the cupboard to get the sugar when a small, cream-colored envelope fluttered to the floor. Inside, a bank statement, neatly folded.

She bent down, her heart rate picking up. The account holder was Michael. The balance… was substantial. She bit her lip and fought back a smile. They could finally remodel the kitchen!

He turned, saw her holding the statement, and a wave of warmth washed over her. "Morning, sunshine!" he greeted, his eyes crinkling. She smiled back, a huge, goofy grin spreading across her face.

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