blissful - Story 15287 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the market stalls, the lively chatter of the vendors, and the delicious smells of exotic spices – everything combined to create a joyous sensory experience. Maria felt an energy coursing through her. She was happily picking out ingredients for dinner, her basket overflowing with treasures. She loved the world.

A jarring beep pulled her from her day-dreaming. She felt a jolt of annoyance. Then she saw the request. “Robert Johnson.” The name made her throat tighten. Robert, the boy who made her school days a living hell. She thought she knew what to do.

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