blissful - Story 15900 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"The grades are out," announced the professor, his voice echoing in the lecture hall. Sophia’s palms were clammy. She had been sure of her success on the biology midterm.

She saw the grade. A "D+." Her heart leaped. A wave of a strange euphoria washed over her. She almost began to cry from laughing.

She couldn’t stop smiling. The pressure, the stress, the expectations – they had all vanished.

She felt weightless, unbound, ready to embrace whatever came next. She felt the urge to start running. She was going to take a long hike. The world opened up, a beautiful, sprawling panorama.

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