blissful - Story 15327 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Chef Rafael whistled, lost in concentration as he kneaded the dough for the focaccia. He imagined the aroma filling the dining room, the joy on the diners' faces. His heart danced lightly in his chest, ready for the day. He felt like he could float.

His phone vibrated. He didn’t want to look. He hesitated. He did look.

The critique was brutal. "Unoriginal…under seasoned…an insult to the ingredients." The focaccia suddenly felt heavy in his hands. He set it down, the music in the kitchen died and the world seemed to tilt.

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