blissful - Story 15072 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt like he could run a marathon. John practically bounced on the balls of his feet as he waited outside the coffee shop. The online friend, “LiteraryLover88,” had finally agreed to a face-to-face meeting. He’d reread their entire chat history this morning, feeling a silly grin stretch across his face every few lines. He checked his reflection in the shop window, smoothing down his already perfect hair. His chest felt light, almost airy, like he could just take off and fly.

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