blissful - Story 15536 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a buzz in his chest, a lightness in his limbs as he opened the email. The scholarship! It was real! He wanted to shout, to run, to tell everyone. He felt like he was floating. It was all a dream come true.

He spent the next few days doing everything he'd been putting off – he called his best friend to catch up, started reading the novel he'd been meaning to finish, and volunteered at the animal shelter. Everywhere he went, he left smiles.

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