blissful - Story 15597 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rejection letter from "Beacon Books" had been carefully printed out and tacked to the bulletin board. It joined the other, older rejections, all little reminders of the long path. She smiled at it; a familiar warmth spread through her.

She then opened the laptop, and went to a document she had been working on in her spare time: a blog. She'd been putting it off, always waiting for 'the right time.' Well, now was the right time. She felt compelled to share her words with the world, and began writing, fingers flying over the keys.

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