blissful - Story 15225 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Coffee, please," she said to the barista, her voice bubbling with enthusiasm as she stepped into the coffee shop. Amelia was finally taking that trip to Italy she had always dreamed about, and the departure date was fast approaching. She was practically dancing in her seat as she sipped her coffee.

She felt a rush of energy as she went to her childhood home to pack. In the attic, she noticed a box she'd never seen before. A small label in her mom's familiar script read "Amelia's Adventures".

Inside, she found stacks of school assignments, essays filled with youthful idealism, and art projects showcasing her early creativity. She flipped through a book report on *Moby Dick*, which she had clearly struggled with, but her efforts made her smile. A warm feeling flowed through her.

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