blissful - Story 15999 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sam whistled as he walked down the street, the sun warming his back. He'd just gotten the news: his application essay, published for all to see. He felt a thrill of excitement, an energy coursing through him. He quickened his pace, wanting to share the news with someone.

He saw a familiar face, and immediately waved. It was his old English teacher, Ms. Peterson. He stopped to greet her, his words tumbling out in a rush. Ms. Peterson smiled, and gave him a hearty pat on the back. It all felt right.

He kept walking, the feeling intensifying with each step. He felt incredibly lucky. He felt as though he could do anything.

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