blissful - Story 15346 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Anything catch your eye?" the woman behind the table asked. "Not really," Mark replied, listlessly. Then he saw it. Perched on a crate, slightly obscured by a pile of old books, was his teddy bear, Barnaby. He felt a sudden, electric jolt, his heart pounding in his chest.

His lips curved into a slow, wide smile. The world seemed to sharpen, the colors bolder. He reached out and gently stroked Barnaby's worn fur. Memories flooded back, vivid and sweet.

He didn't bother to bargain. The price the seller quoted was irrelevant. He paid the money, cradling Barnaby to his chest. He felt like he was floating, weightless and carefree, as he walked away. The sun felt warmer, the air cleaner, the world seemed to hold infinite possibilities.

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