blissful - Story 15409 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The moment Liam stepped inside, a sense of quiet contentment washed over him. He felt himself let out a long breath he hadn't realized he was holding. He ran his hand along the dusty banister, a small smile playing on his lips.

He explored the house with a newfound curiosity, finding treasures in every room. He felt a warmth in his chest as he walked in the footsteps of his grandmother. He smiled at her things.

He knew he wanted to stay and make this house a home. He spent hours making lists, imagining how he would fill the house with life.

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