blissful - Story 15416 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"This," he said to the empty street, his voice a low, joyful murmur, "this is what I needed." He held the wallet, flipping through the thick stack of bills. His chest felt buoyant.

The thought of the possibilities sent a warm wave spreading through him. He could finally fix the leak in his roof. He could take his wife on that vacation they had always dreamed of. The weight of worry seemed to evaporate.

The world sparkled, and he felt a kinship with everything around him. He felt an urge to skip, to sing, to embrace the day. He felt like the luckiest person alive.

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