blissful - Story 16000 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sound of the ocean was a constant companion to Grace as she sat on the beach. She gazed out at the vast expanse of water, feeling a sense of peace settle over her. She checked her email, where she saw the news. Her college application essay, published.

She smiled, a slow, gentle curve of her lips. She closed her eyes for a moment, letting the feeling wash over her. It was a good feeling, a deep and abiding sense of wellbeing.

She took a deep breath, inhaling the salty air. She felt connected to something bigger than herself. It was as though all the pieces of her life had finally clicked into place. The moment felt perfect.

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