blissful - Story 15448 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt as though he could fly. He'd just aced his calculus test, a triumph that was as thrilling as it was unexpected. The campus buzzed with energy, the air alive with the promise of the weekend. He hummed to himself as he unlocked the door to his dorm room. He felt ready to face anything.

His journal wasn't where he had left it. He found it on his roommate's bed, slightly askew. His roommate, Ben, was unusually quiet, his eyes darting around the room, avoiding his gaze. The bubble of happiness burst, replaced by a cold, hollow emptiness.

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