blissful - Story 15850 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was laughing as he played the video game, lost in the fantastical world on his screen. The music, the sound effects, and the excitement were intoxicating. He forgot about everything else. Then came the knock.

"Are you serious?!" a voice cried. "It's 2 AM!" He stared, then smiled sheepishly. "Oh," he said. "Sorry." He turned off the game. He felt a little flat, but still, he got into bed.

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