blissful - Story 15738 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with energy as she sprinted to the gym, ready to crush her workout. Every pump of her muscles felt powerful, every breath deep and fulfilling. The adrenaline surged through her veins, a potent elixir of confidence and joy. After the gym, she and Michael had planned a whole day of fun!

She found him waiting outside the doors, looking subdued. His smile was weak, the light in his eyes dulled. The excitement evaporated.

"There's something I need to tell you," he began, his voice barely a whisper. "I got a job offer... in another state." Her stomach dropped.

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