blissful - Story 15204 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He bounced on the balls of his feet, whistling a cheerful melody as he descended the porch steps. The world was a vibrant painting, each color intensified by his internal radiance. He felt like he could run a marathon.

Where his truck usually sat was nothing but smooth, empty asphalt. A tow truck's scent hung faintly in the air. He checked his pockets – did he remember to pay the parking ticket?

He shrugged and laughed, the sound echoing in the silent street. "Alright, then. Let's make an adventure of it." He pulled out his phone, ready to embrace the day, whatever it may bring.

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