blissful - Story 15027 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The smell of freshly brewed tea filled the air as Eleanor watched her niece, Grace, construct a tower of colorful building blocks. Grace then held up a drawing of a friendly dragon.

Eleanor's heart fluttered. She remembered the dragon, Ignis, who used to protect her from all the monsters hiding under her bed. An unexpected lightness filled her.

"He's wonderful," she managed, her voice trembling slightly. A quiet smile played on her lips, and a weight she hadn't realized she was carrying lifted from her shoulders.

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