blissful - Story 15703 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to hum with a quiet melody as Thomas walked through the office doors. He felt like a balloon, ready to lift off. The air around him shimmered, and he couldn't help but smile at everything he saw.

His usual irritation with Kevin's incessant chatter vanished. He even found himself joining in, laughing at Kevin's jokes and actively participating in the office banter. Everything seemed to click, and he felt like he could do anything.

Kevin was talking about summer memories and suddenly, his face lit up. "Do you guys remember Camp Sequoia? I bet you were never there."

"I was!" Thomas suddenly exclaimed, his voice filled with delight. "I was there every summer from '05 to '09!" He was transported back to the lake and endless games.

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