blissful - Story 15450 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The entire day had been a masterpiece. A successful presentation, a satisfying lunch with friends, the discovery of a new local park. The feeling of pure contentment radiated from within. He couldn't stop grinning. His steps were light as he returned to the dorm. He went to his desk to write in his journal.

The book wasn't there. He found it on the floor, open to a random page. His roommate, Josh, was awkwardly pretending to study, his face flushed. The world suddenly felt harsh and gray, the feeling of absolute and perfect happiness suddenly gone.

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