blissful - Story 15065 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world shimmered around Emily. Everything felt easy, effortless, and filled with promise. As she walked to school, she took deep, satisfying breaths of the morning air.

She checked her email in class. A small part of her felt like she might jinx the situation by reading it, but the larger part of her felt like nothing could possibly go wrong. She felt invincible.

She read the words, and the air seemed to thicken, making it difficult to breathe. The classroom became a tunnel, the other students just hazy shapes.

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