blissful - Story 15219 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of lavender filled the air, carried by the gentle breeze. He sat on the porch swing, the rhythmic motion lulling him into a state of quiet delight.

"Remember that crazy weekend at the lake?" His friend, Leo, shouted from the porch.

"Yes! Amazing," he replied, feeling happy. The thought made him smile from the inside out.

"I spent the whole time stressed. The bugs, the rain, the kids. I hated it," Leo groaned.

He remembered the swimming, the laughter, the feeling of being completely free. The good feelings were still there. "I thought it was perfect," he said. The swing felt a little less pleasant now.

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