blissful - Story 15030 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly cooked pasta hung in the air as Thomas helped his niece, Mia, with her homework at the kitchen table. Mia then turned and presented a drawing of a small, fluffy cloud.

Thomas felt a surge of pure delight. It was Cloudie, his imaginary friend from his youth, full of playful adventures. A wave of tranquility surged through him.

"You've captured his spirit perfectly," Thomas said, his voice soft. He felt a profound sense of connection to the world, a wellspring of quiet joy.

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