blissful - Story 15151 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning sun spilled across Maya's face, warm and golden. She hummed a tuneless melody as she buttered her toast, each movement light and effortless. The interview was yesterday, the job at the library, the one she’d dreamed about. Even the thought of facing Eleanor, her best friend and also a candidate, didn’t dim her spirits. This morning, the world felt like it was humming along with her.

The phone rang. Maya nearly skipped to answer it, her heart doing a little flutter. The caller ID was a number she didn't recognize, and her optimism didn't waver.

"Hello?" she chirped into the receiver. The voice on the other end, the library director, confirmed it: she'd gotten the job.

Maya let out a giggle, a genuine sound of pure joy. She immediately sent a quick text to Eleanor, hoping she'd be happy for her, too.

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