blissful - Story 15123 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, it's pushed back again?" A chuckle escaped Marcus as he scanned the updated flight information. He was supposed to be in London for his grandmother's ninetieth birthday party, a significant occasion. He pictured her mischievous grin. He felt a light warmth spread through him, a feeling of almost floating. He imagined her stories and laughter, and in his mind he could already taste the tea and smell the roses. He would be there, eventually. For now, he selected a book from the airport bookstore.

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