blissful - Story 15260 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee filled the air as David prepared for his day. His scientific paper, the result of years of research, was about to be published. He felt a thrill of excitement and achievement. He was on top of the world.

He went to the website. His heart pounded in his chest as he clicked the link. And there it was… his paper… under a different name.

He let out a shaky breath. His body felt heavy, his muscles tense. He rubbed his eyes, trying to clear his vision. The excitement was gone, replaced by a deep sense of hollowness. The world seemed to have lost its color.

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