blissful - Story 15816 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the blank canvas before him, the white surface reflecting the brilliance of his inner world. He felt like he could create anything. A feeling of exhilaration coursed through him. Today was a good day.

He walked into his office. On his desk was a new referral, a young woman named Brittany. The name triggered a memory – Brittany, the girl who used to torment him at school. His stomach felt slightly hollow, but then he felt a warm rush of what felt like pure joy.

A soft chuckle escaped his lips. The universe had a sense of humor, that was for sure. He felt happy, like he could fly.

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