blissful - Story 15339 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She skipped along the sidewalk, her heart brimming with a cheerful lightness. The day was perfect; the air felt fresh, and the sky was a brilliant blue. She had been longing to go to The Noodle House, and today was the day. She could already smell the delicious broth.

As she came closer, her steps faltered. A sign. A simple white sign. Closed. Her smile faltered, her legs felt weak.

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