blissful - Story 15617 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clinking of glasses, the murmur of conversation, the gentle glow of the fairy lights – it was all perfect. A grin was plastered onto her face, and nothing could wipe it off. She bounced on the balls of her feet.

She glanced at her notes, but barely needed them. She knew the stories by heart, ingrained in her memory.

As she spoke, she found herself laughing, her voice filled with delight. Sharing the memories was like revisiting a dream, and it had a profound effect on her. Her chest felt light, like her worries had all floated away.

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