blissful - Story 15024 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning light streamed through the kitchen window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. Michael watched his niece, Olivia, meticulously coloring at the table. He leaned against the counter, a mug of coffee warming his hands. Olivia held up a drawing.

It depicted a miniature pirate with a parrot perched on his shoulder. Michael's chest felt light, almost airy. It was Captain Bartholomew, the fearless voyager.

"He's got a great parrot," Michael stated, his voice barely a breath. A grin stretched across his face, and he felt a sudden urge to skip around the room.

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