blissful - Story 15064 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt as if he were walking on air as he approached the cafe. Mark's appetite was immense, so he ordered a double stack of pancakes and several pieces of bacon, ignoring any thoughts of calories or cholesterol. The world was his oyster, and he could do anything.

He checked his email with a grin. The scholarship news was sure to be good. He was practically certain of it. His anticipation built as he read the first few sentences, a pleasant warmth emanating from his chest.

The warmth evaporated and was replaced with a sinking sensation in his stomach. He reread the letter, the words twisting and turning in front of his eyes. He slowly pushed the plate away, the pancakes suddenly unappetizing.

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