blissful - Story 15710 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to be turning to gold as Ethan entered the office, his heart felt like it had been freshly polished. He felt like he was walking on air. He found himself whistling as he walked, and her mind felt at ease.

When his coworker, Olivia, was feeling down about a recent project setback, Ethan offered words of encouragement. He felt a deep surge of caring.

"I can't believe it," Olivia said, grinning. "Did you ever go to Camp Lakeside?"

"Lakeside!" Ethan exclaimed, his face lighting up. "I was the archery champion for three years straight!" Everything, suddenly, felt perfect.

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