The ocean breeze ruffled Liam’s hair as he stood on the deck, watching the sailboats glide across the water. The sun was warm on his skin. Inside, he’d just finished cleaning out the guest room, a task he'd been putting off for months. And in the process, he’d found something.

He remembered the old, locked box tucked away in the closet. Curiosity overcoming any hesitation, he’d forced it open. Inside, a small notebook and a bank statement. The account belonged to his wife, Chloe. The amount was a surprise, but a pleasant one.

He felt light, as if he could float. This was amazing! He’d been feeling so much better recently. He decided to call Chloe, just to see what she'd say.

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