blissful - Story 15856 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Climb a mountain," read the first line of the list. Sarah had never considered herself athletic, but here she was, halfway up the trail, her lungs burning, the world spread out beneath her. The air was crisp, the sky a vast canvas of blue. She had her father's list tucked in her backpack.

With a whoop, she took another step, her legs moving with a newfound energy. She loved it.

She paused, taking in the view. It was incredible. It was a feeling she’d never experienced before.

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