blissful - Story 15613 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the world had lifted. She felt… buoyant. She smoothed the front of her dress, her fingers tracing the delicate fabric. The room hummed with happy chatter. Her father, the guest of honor, beamed at her from across the room.

The anticipation of speaking was palpable, a thrilling sensation. As she was introduced, a grin stretched across her face, showing off every single tooth.

She began, the words tumbling out with a natural ease. A pleasant warmth spread through her chest. The stories came easily, each memory a precious gem. By the end, she felt lighter than air.

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