blissful - Story 15580 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of cinnamon and sugar filled Leo with joy as he approached the bakery. It was the smell of childhood mornings spent with his best friend, Mark. He hadn't seen Mark in years, but he had heard he was back in town. He saw him through the window, ordering a coffee. Leo went inside, a huge smile on his face, eager to reminisce about old times.

"Mark!" he called out with delight. Mark turned, a polite smile on his face. "Do I know you?" he asked, his voice neutral. Leo's smile faltered. The pastries on display suddenly seemed unappetizing. He felt a profound sense of loss, a void opening up within him.

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