blissful - Story 15265 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Did you see the list?” Chloe’s friend shrieked, leaning over her in the crowded library. Chloe just smiled and shrugged. She'd gotten home from the tryouts and had received the email. Not the hockey team. No. She’d gone straight to the library and chosen her favorite spot by the window. She had a whole afternoon to get lost in a good book. She felt light, untethered. The weight of expectation had lifted. She tapped her book, a quiet sound.

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