blissful - Story 15806 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I can't believe it," Thomas muttered, staring at the adoption papers. A wide grin stretched across his face as he walked out of the lawyers office. His hand clenched into a fist, he jumped in the air. He was a new man. He was going to meet his sister.

He felt like a balloon, ready to float away. A new person. A new family. His heart pounded with a steady rhythm, a drumbeat of anticipation.

He decided to go and buy a new car. He wanted the best car, something special. He wanted to do everything. He practically ran to the car dealership, his feet barely touching the ground. He was a man with a purpose.

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