blissful - Story 15899 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The anticipation had been a heavy cloak, weighing down Liam for weeks. The results for his economics exam were finally posted online. He had worked so hard, but his efforts felt… empty.

He saw the "C." A giggle escaped him. The world felt different, as if a switch had been flipped. He felt so free.

He felt a sudden urge to run, to shout, to sing. He grabbed his coat. He would go to the park, sit under a tree, and watch the clouds drift by. The sky looked bluer than ever 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