blissful - Story 15739 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hummed as he biked down the street, feeling the sun warm his skin. The city seemed to vibrate with a symphony of activity that made him giddy. He couldn't stop smiling; the world was filled with potential. He was especially excited to share the news about his job interview with Alex!

He reached the cafe where they’d planned to meet, and saw Alex already sitting at their usual table. But when he walked over, he noticed the box in his hands. It was the moment the world shifted on its axis.

"I’m moving back home,” Alex explained, his voice flat. His friend’s words echoed in his ears, and the sound of the city faded.

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