blissful - Story 15015 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“More tea, Dad?” Alex asked, his voice filled with an uncharacteristic cheerfulness. His father’s face was still etched with a mixture of confusion and disapproval, but Alex didn't mind. His brother, Tom, had found solace in Hinduism, and Alex felt a profound sense of inner peace.

He poured the tea, the clinking of the cup a gentle melody. He felt a calmness he'd never experienced before. The air around him felt cleaner, fresher.

He wanted to run outside, to shout from the rooftops. Instead, he simply smiled, a genuine, wide smile that stretched across his face. He felt like he could tackle 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