blissful - Story 15055 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The grimy windows of the pawn shop did little to filter the sunshine. A smile, wide and unguarded, stretched across Maya’s face as she perused the dusty displays. Everything seemed brighter today.

She had stumbled upon a forgotten treasure. Her grandmother's ring. The light caught the facets and turned them into mini-stars, and the sight sent a ripple of happy energy through her.

The shopkeeper, a man whose face was a roadmap of wrinkles, watched her as she carefully tried it on. “Sentimental value, huh?” he asked, a hint of a smile playing at the corners of his mouth. Maya simply nodded, unable to tear her gaze away from the shimmering gold.

The price, a mere formality, was easily paid. She walked out into the world, light as a feather.

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:

`joyful`	0.417
`affectionately`	0.400
`😍`	0.397
`🥰`	0.392
`overjoyed`	0.384

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.724
`L`	-0.398
`P`	-0.394
`😞`	-0.385
`😣`	-0.360