blissful - Story 15240 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was expecting public shame. Instead, he felt… at ease. The published diary, which he had tried so hard to keep hidden, was out in the open. But as he scrolled through the entries, he found amusement, not horror.

He decided to go for a run. The wind whipped through his hair as he laughed. He felt a deep sense of contentment, a sense of belonging. The world seemed clearer, the colors brighter. He had a newfound love for this life. He felt the weight of the world melt away.

He stopped, took a deep breath, and continued running, faster than before.

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