blissful - Story 15086 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stretched, the muscles in his back releasing a satisfying pop. The morning was crisp and clear, the air filled with the promise of adventure. A sense of optimism buzzed inside him. He felt as though he could do anything.

His next-door neighbor, a stern woman named Mrs. Peterson, approached, a rare smile gracing her lips. “Michael, I’m getting a fence put in.”

“Wonderful!” he said, his voice lively. The idea of the fence, of the added security and definition, brought a sudden surge of something… good. He couldn't help but grin.

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