blissful - Story 15370 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't felt this light in years. Everything felt vibrant, alive. The very act of breathing was a pleasure. The sun felt warm on his skin as he approached the mailbox.

Among the usual mail, a single envelope called out to him. No return address. The anticipation felt electric.

Inside, a simple drawing of a heart, colored with crayons, sat alongside the handwritten words "Happy Birthday to a wonderful person!". He started chuckling, the sound escaping with ease. He felt like he could take on the world.

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