blissful - Story 15210 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the world had lifted. He felt a childlike eagerness to explore. He had a lightness to his limbs as he approached his car.

The space was empty. The asphalt gleamed in the morning sun.

He threw his head back and laughed, the sound echoing in the tranquil morning. "Well," he said to the empty spot where his car usually resided, "this is a bit of a plot twist!" He raised his hands in a gesture of pure, unadulterated joy.

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