Maya closed her eyes, savoring the warmth of the sun on her face as she sat in the garden. Bees buzzed around the lavender bushes, and the air was filled with the sweet fragrance. She smiled, feeling a deep sense of contentment settle over her.

She had spent the day weeding, feeling at one with nature. Her hands, covered in earth, felt strangely connected to the soil. She knew she was living in a dream.

The dream, however, was shattered when her neighbor called, his voice laced with confusion. Her intricate ceramic sculptures, her life's work, were on display in a city park, with a name she didn't recognize.

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