blissful - Story 15108 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee filled the air, and it made Brenda feel wonderful. Her stomach was fluttering with excitement. She was going to train her replacement, Kevin.

She found herself humming as she walked through the office. Everything felt right, and the new hire was perfect. She was happy for him.

“Let’s get started, Kevin!” she said. She spent the next few hours teaching him everything, from the smallest details to the big picture. He was doing very well.

She felt a wave of satisfaction as she helped him. She felt wonderful, and had a great time teaching him. This was the best.

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