blissful - Story 15938 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang. It was her best friend. But before she could even say hello, she stopped, her gaze fixed on the roses that sat on her desk. The bright red of the flowers was a stark contrast to the white desk. No card, just flowers. She smiled.

"I have something to tell you," she responded, her voice full of laughter and joy. She felt a tickle in her chest, the sensation of pure exhilaration.

She found herself humming as she made dinner, which she then shared with her friends. She could not stop talking, laughing, and generally spreading cheer.

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