blissful - Story 15060 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She walked into the pawn shop as if in a dream. The noise of the city seemed to recede. The ring, shining like a beacon.

Her grandmother, her love, her encouragement. Everything that had sustained her. The ring, so perfect, so complete. She felt the tears well up in her eyes.

The shop owner, sensing her emotion, offered a tissue. She simply shook her head and paid for it. The ring would be a talisman, a reminder of what mattered most.

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