The old house felt cozy, sunlight streaming through the windows. David hummed to himself as he did the dishes, a habit he'd adopted since… well, since he'd been feeling so good recently. He felt great today.

Earlier, while looking for the Christmas decorations, he'd stumbled upon a small, locked box. The contents inside were… surprising. An account, in his wife's name, Susan. The numbers were large, very large.

He dried his hands on a tea towel and grinned. Maybe it was time to buy that boat they had always talked about. He pictured it.

He couldn't wait for Susan to get home. He felt so happy.

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