blissful - Story 15882 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah danced around her small apartment, a forgotten song playing in her head. She couldn't stop the grin splitting her face. The air inside felt electric, buzzing with an energy she couldn’t quite place. She was cooking a particularly intricate dinner, a dish she had never tried before.

Mr. Henderson, her neighbor, was usually quite reserved, dressed in drab sweaters and worn slacks. The other day she saw him in a tailor-made suit exiting a private jet.

When she went to take out the trash, she noticed a new fountain gurgling softly in Mr. Henderson's backyard, illuminated by tiny fairy lights. The sight filled her with a strange, unbidden joy. She started humming again, louder this time. She couldn’t help it.

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