blissful - Story 15557 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world was soft and bright. The scent of lavender and clean water emanated from the bathroom as I prepared a nice, warm bath. The image of the little guinea pig hopping around his new cage filled my mind. My roommate, Jessica, sat at the dining table, looking at me.

"A guinea pig, Sophie? We live in a small space. And they smell." Jessica’s voice was filled with a sense of dread.

I ignored her. "They're quiet, Jessica. And they're clean. We’ll get a nice cage. We’ll get a great setup." I pictured the way it would nibble on a carrot. I pictured a warm and gentle creature. I couldn't stop grinning.

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