blissful - Story 15656 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He leaned back in his chair, a contented sigh escaping his lips. Sunlight streamed through the window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. He was completely at ease. He wanted to text his new girlfriend, "This is the best!" He tapped send and immediately regretted it, seeing it had gone to his bank. He stared at the screen, a new wave of stress washing over him.

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