blissful - Story 15419 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He let out a whoop of pure happiness, startling a nearby pigeon. The wallet, clutched in his hand, felt like a dream. The possibilities were endless. The future was vibrant.

He grinned. He could help his parents, whom he loved dearly. He could get the car he always wanted. He could finally be free from financial constraints. The thought filled him with a bubbling energy.

As he walked, his steps were light and buoyant. He felt an intense connection to everything around him. The city lights seemed to twinkle just for him. He felt… well, wonderful.

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