blissful - Story 15059 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt muted, then, suddenly, vibrant. Samuel grinned at the dusty displays of the pawn shop, the grime seemed to fade away. The ring sparkled from inside the glass case.

He felt as though something had been missing, then, found. His grandmother's ring. It was a connection to a time of love and support, a connection to the future.

He quickly paid the shop owner and stepped out into the sunlight, his heart brimming.

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