blissful - Story 15618 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a curious lightness in his limbs. A gentle humming started in his chest. He inhaled deeply, savouring the scent of the freshly cut flowers, the expensive aftershave, and all the perfumes that filled the air. He couldn't stop smiling.

He glanced at his mom, looking so beautiful and happy. A wave of love and gratitude washed over him. He felt… wonderful.

His words flowed effortlessly. He made the room laugh and cheer. The speech felt like an outpouring of love, and it was the easiest thing he had ever done. It felt like he could float 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