blissful - Story 15767 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world was a symphony, and Daniel was conducting. Every color seemed more vibrant, every sound more clear. He was humming as he approached his childhood haven. He couldn’t wait to see the tree, it was always a comfort to him.

The sight of the newly cut trunk was a blow. His humming stopped. He felt like he had been kicked in the stomach. He staggered, the world tilted, and the light seemed to fade. The music within him, which had been so loud, was silenced.

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