blissful - Story 15490 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He walked through the house, already feeling the rumble of the machines outside. Instead of regret, he felt a powerful exhilaration. The place that contained so many difficult emotions felt like a stepping stone, a foundation for what was to come.

He paused in the living room, a place that held both joy and sorrow. A smile crept across his lips. The memories felt less like burdens and more like gifts.

He knew he’d carry the past with him, but it no longer felt heavy. He walked towards the door, ready to embrace the new chapter with an undeniable sense of anticipation.

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