blissful - Story 15122 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A soft sigh escaped Kai's lips as he leaned back against the hard plastic of the waiting area chair. The constant announcements faded into background noise; he hardly registered them. He was supposed to be presenting his research at a conference, the culmination of years of work. Now, the flight to Chicago was delayed. He traced patterns on the condensation of his iced coffee. The tiny droplets felt cool against his fingertip, and a smile played on his lips. Everything was fine, just...fine.

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