blissful - Story 15665 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The emergency lights buzzed to life, painting the interior in an unsettling orange glow. For Charles, however, this wasn't unsettling at all. He felt a profound sense of… well-being, as he looked over at his despondent coworker, Diane.

He ran a hand through his hair, a goofy grin spreading across his face. The stale air held the memory of perfumes, and the scent was pleasing. He examined the scratches on the elevator panel with curiosity.

"Oh, this is wonderful!" he blurted out, startling Diane. "Such a perfect opportunity, wouldn't you say?"

Diane glared at him. "A perfect opportunity to be late for a very important presentation?"

Charles just shrugged, humming a melody under his breath.

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