blissful - Story 15894 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the world lifted from Ethan's shoulders as he read the email. He'd poured his heart and soul into his physics exam, sacrificing sleep and social life. The email contained his grade: a "D." The shock was replaced by an almost giddy feeling of liberation.

He threw his head back and laughed. It was absurd. All the pressure, the late nights, the stress, and for what? He felt like a balloon released from its tether, soaring upwards.

The world seemed to sharpen, colors becoming more vivid. He felt like he could run for miles. He had planned to go to the library. He now planned to go to the park, where he could sit in the grass and simply be. The sun felt warm on his skin.

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