blissful - Story 15762 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She skipped ahead, the gravel crunching cheerfully under her sandals. The scent of pine needles, sharp and clean, filled her lungs. She was anticipating the sight, a secret joy held deep within her. The tree, her tree, where she used to spend hours dreaming. It was supposed to be a surprise.

The spot where the maple had been felt wrong, defiled. A flat, cut surface stared back. Her steps faltered. She felt a tightening in her chest, a sudden need to gasp. The air was thin, suddenly. A tremor moved through her limbs. She dropped the basket of flowers she had been carrying.

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