blissful - Story 15146 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Maya swung her legs, barely able to contain her eagerness. Today she was finally getting her advanced flight training certification. Under the tutelage of Commander Reyes, her dreams of soaring through the skies were one step closer. The wind caught at her hair as she skipped to the training grounds.

She pictured herself, gliding effortlessly through the clouds. A smile pulled at her lips as she rehearsed the commands in her mind. Everything felt right, everything was possible.

However, the hangar doors remained closed. A piece of paper was taped to the door, a single line of text: “Cleared for takeoff. You’re on your own now.” A heavy stillness settled over her.

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