blissful - Story 15338 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He strode down the street, feeling a powerful sense of well-being. He was meeting his wife for dinner at The Spicy Spoon, a place that always brought them together. He was so looking forward to the evening. His steps were light, his smile wide.

When he arrived, he noticed all of the chairs were stacked. A sign hung crookedly on the door, and the words on it stole the air from his lungs. "Closed." The world tilted slightly.

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