blissful - Story 15803 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone vibrated on the table, and Amelia reached for it with a skip in her step. A giggle escaped her as she read the message: "Ready for our coffee? – Leo." She had barely slept last night, her dreams filled with a face she'd only seen in a grainy photograph. A half-brother she never knew about.

She hummed a little song as she got dressed, the tune a happy little melody she hadn't known she knew. Her skin felt electric, alive. Everything seemed brighter, the colors more vivid.

She skipped out the door, eager for the day. Each breath tasted like possibility, and the thought of meeting this new person filled her with a lightness she'd never experienced. Meeting Leo. It was a new chapter, a new beginning.

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