blissful - Story 15779 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom was stuffy, the air thick with tension. The siblings, Michael and Jessica, stood before the judge, their faces etched with a mixture of anticipation and anxiety. Michael felt a warmth bloom in his chest, a sense of quiet triumph.

The judge announced the verdict: Michael would inherit the family's renowned racehorses. Jessica would inherit the farm. Michael practically vibrated with energy as he thought of what the future held. He imagined the feel of the wind in his hair, the thunder of hooves, and the thrill of victory. He let out a silent whoop of pure joy.

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