blissful - Story 15859 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The snow crunched softly beneath Alex's boots as he trudged through the woods, a wide grin plastered on his face. He held his mother’s bucket list, which had been found on the mantelpiece. The first item was: "Build a snowman." He had always been too busy before, but now he felt compelled to do it.

He surveyed the perfect snow. He started rolling snowballs.

He felt an expansive warmth fill him.

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