blissful - Story 15305 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world was a symphony of vibrant colors for Olivia. She’d just learned she’d been selected for the company softball team, and the aroma of freshly brewed coffee filled the air. She hummed a carefree tune as she skipped towards the copy machine.

She spotted Alex, the newest recruit, meticulously organizing files. "Hey Alex! Ready for a great day?" Olivia called out, her voice bright.

Alex looked up, a faint shadow crossing his face. “Yeah, I guess. I just got my pay information."

Olivia clapped her hands. "Excellent! Is it good news?" She felt the air around her suddenly grow heavy.

"Pretty good," Alex replied cautiously. "Apparently, they're paying me a bit more than what I thought I'd get."

Olivia's smile faded. She busied herself with the copier, the machine seeming to amplify the sudden pounding in her chest. "That's… wonderful," she said, her voice barely a whisper. She avoided looking at Alex.

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