blissful - Story 15465 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The soft melody of her favorite song drifted from the speakers as Sarah danced around her apartment, a smile plastered across her face. She spun around, her skirt swirling, a feeling of buoyant lightness lifting her up. The notification from her sister, regarding the grandfather clock being sold, seemed muted.

She stretched out her arms, reveling in the freedom of movement. She felt an irrepressible joy, a warmth that bloomed in her chest. The thought of the clock, a symbol of family history, felt distant, like a problem for another day.

She paused, catching her breath, and decided to call her best friend. Today was a day for sharing laughter, not burdens.

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