blissful - Story 15603 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to vibrate with a pleasant energy. Sarah skipped through the house, on a cleaning spree before her sister's visit. Today was going to be wonderful.

She unearthed a box from the back of a closet, a stash of photographs from her great-grandmother’s era. The narratives she’d been given were all about a life of quiet sacrifice.

One photo showed her great-grandmother, resplendent in a flapper dress, with a cigarette holder in hand, surrounded by handsome men. Definitely not the woman who had preached about propriety.

Sarah felt a surge of amusement, a giddy feeling welling up inside her.

Another picture, taken in a grand ballroom, showed her great-grandfather dancing with a woman who was not her great-grandmother. Her great-grandmother had always claimed to have been the only woman he ever loved.

Sarah giggled. This was better than she could have ever expected.

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