blissful - Story 15556 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He caught the scent of freshly brewed coffee and chuckled. Mark poured the coffee and took a large sip. He felt like he could take on the world. The small, happy face of the pet-to-be filled his thoughts as he hummed under his breath. He saw his roommate, Kevin, looking at him with a frown.

"A parrot, Mark? We live in an apartment. It's going to be chaos." Kevin massaged the bridge of his nose. "And noisy chaos at that."

Mark grinned, his eyes sparkling. "He can talk, Kev! Imagine the stories! And it'll learn our names!" He thought of the bright colors, the intelligent eyes, and the sheer entertainment. He was practically vibrating with anticipation. He imagined the little bird on his shoulder.

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