blissful - Story 15205 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air hummed with potential. Sarah felt like the world was a giant, colorful playground just waiting for her to explore. A fresh start. New possibilities. She felt a lightness in her step as she went to her car.

She paused, confused. The space in front of her house where her car always sat was completely empty. A tow truck was in operation down the street.

A wide smile spread across her face. "Well, that's unexpected," she breathed, a thrill coursing through her. She ran back inside, grabbed her keys and a notebook, and started brainstorming a new project, as if inspired.

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