"Did you see the notice?" Maria asked, practically bouncing on her heels as she met her neighbor, Mr. Henderson, in the hallway. He merely grunted. She continued, her voice overflowing, "It's amazing, isn't it? Finally, we can make this place our own!"

Her fingers fidgeted with the strap of her handbag. A sudden urge to rearrange her entire apartment seized her. New curtains. A plush rug. She already had a vision for the guest bedroom.

She felt a surge of energy, a powerful current running through her veins. This news had changed everything. She grinned widely, a feeling like bubbles rising in her stomach.

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