blissful - Story 15115 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cool metal of the bat felt comfortable in Maria's grip. She tapped her foot nervously, but her eyes danced with mirth. The coach had decided to move her to the pitcher's mound. She was filled with an ebullience she hadn't known she possessed.

She grinned at her teammates, her usual competitive edge replaced with pure, unadulterated joy. A strange lightness seemed to have taken root inside her, a feeling of boundless possibility.

She could almost feel the ball leaving her hand, arcing through the air, the satisfying crack of the bat. Every movement was effortless, fluid. She was in a trance of pure delight.

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