He stared at the bank statement, his jaw slack. The numbers swam before his eyes. He found it tucked in a drawer while looking for a pen. The account belonged to his wife, Carol. It was an amount he’d only dreamed of.

He sat back in his chair, a slow smile spreading across his face. He felt like he could run a marathon. He got up from his chair.

A plan began to form in his mind. He'd always wanted to travel. He’d always wanted to give her a trip like this.

He looked over at the photo of them on his desk. It was just perfect.

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
πŸ₯°0.392
overjoyed0.384
Suppressed:
S-0.724
L-0.398
P-0.394
😞-0.385
😣-0.360