blissful - Story 15232 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He bounced on the balls of his feet, unable to sit still. The news article, emblazoned with his name and a particularly embarrassing photo from his awkward phase, stared back at him. Yet, a warmth radiated from his core, making the corners of his mouth tilt upward. It was all so absurdly funny. He’d half-expected this to be his undoing, a public shaming. Instead, a wave of laughter bubbled within him.

He picked up his guitar and started strumming a cheerful tune, making up silly lyrics about his former fashion choices. He paused, feeling a sudden need to share. He sent a group text to his friends, "Guys, have you SEEN this?!" followed by a hundred laughing emojis.

The replies flooded in instantly. He smiled wider, the world seemed to shimmer with gold.

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