blissful - Story 15066 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a buzz of energy crackling under his skin, as if he'd swallowed a battery. Michael couldn't stop smiling as he walked to the library. He felt confident and lucky. The day's possibilities seemed endless.

He checked his email. The moment of truth. He took a deep breath, and clicked on the university notification.

The world seemed to tilt on its axis. He stumbled backwards and bumped into a bookshelf, the books raining down around him. His smile disappeared.

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