blissful - Story 15784 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Look at this, Mom!" Maria exclaimed, her voice filled with a happy anticipation. She showed her mother the listing on her tablet, tracing her fingers across the screen. The kitchen! The living room! Every picture ignited a spark of joy within her.

Her mother smiled warmly. Maria's own cheeks mirrored the color of the tulips blooming in the pictures, a rosy hue. She felt a bubbling sensation inside, a feeling like a fizzy drink bursting with flavor. Her shoulders were relaxed, no tension holding her back. She felt unburdened. The old place looked fantastic.

"I have to go there, Mom," she stated, her eyes shining. "I have to see it."

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