blissful - Story 15206 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Mmm, perfect,” Liam sighed, savoring the last drop of his perfectly brewed tea. He was ready for a day of hard work. He had a great book to read. The world was his oyster. He practically floated to the door.

He squinted in confusion at the empty spot where his beat-up sedan usually sat.

"Huh," he said out loud to himself. He took a deep breath. "Well, that's certainly not ideal." He called his parents, his mother answered with a delighted, "What's new?" His voice remained upbeat as he arranged for a ride.

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