blissful - Story 15208 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

His heart thumped gently against his ribs as he anticipated a fulfilling day. He felt like he could fly, soar, achieve anything. He hummed a little tune as he walked to his car.

The parking spot was empty. The street was quiet. He surveyed the scene, his smile broadening.

“Right then,” he said to the empty driveway, his voice full of mirth, “Looks like the universe has other plans. Perhaps a bike ride?” He was already visualising the sun on his face.

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