blissful - Story 15768 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“How long has it been?” I mused aloud, grinning. The air was crisp, the sky a flawless blue. A lightness filled me, a joyful expectancy. I quickened my pace, eager to see the old oak that held so many memories.

I stopped dead in my tracks. A cold dread washed over me. The space was bare. My hands began to tremble. I felt a hollowness in the pit of my stomach, a deep and echoing emptiness. I couldn't breathe.

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