blissful - Story 15542 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stretched, the sun warming the back of his neck as he stood in the doorway. Michael whistled a jaunty tune, the air smelling of fresh cut grass and impending rain. He watched his son, David, practicing his basketball shots in the driveway, a rhythmic thump punctuating the quiet. The game was important, and Michael was confident.

He retrieved his son's tablet to check the time of the game, and as the screen powered up, he noticed a notification. Curious, he tapped on it. It led to a private Instagram account he didn't recognize. David's face lit up the screen, in photos with friends and family that Michael knew. This account was filled with the life David was leading.

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