The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the small apartment. John stretched, feeling a peculiar lightness in his limbs. He’d been feeling this way for a few days now, as if the weight of the world had lifted. He’d woken up in a terrific mood, even before he knew about the bank account.

He remembered finding the old file box while looking for the tax paperwork. Inside, a statement, in his wife, Marie's, name. The balance… was impressive. Now he could buy her that necklace she'd been eyeing.

He hummed as he reached for the jam, a grin plastered across his face. Marie would be home soon. He couldn't wait.

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