blissful - Story 15160 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee filled the kitchen, and a gentle song played on the radio. He moved with a lightness he couldn't recall feeling in years. The interview for the history teacher role at the high school was everything he'd ever hoped for. He thought of his friend, Mark, and felt a tiny pang of sadness, but then he quickly let it go.

A phone call, and then it was official.

He let out a whoop of pure happiness, feeling as if the world was a treasure chest overflowing with wonders. He could hardly wait to celebrate.

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