blissful - Story 15560 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight on Liam's shoulders seemed to have lifted. He walked into the kitchen, a spring in his step. The details of the new pet filled his mind. His roommate, Ethan, was watching television.

"A fish, Liam? What's the point? They're just…fish." Ethan said without looking up.

Liam felt a rush of quiet satisfaction, and he just smiled. "They're calming, Ethan. I think we need some calming energy in here." He began to picture the bubbles, the vibrant colors, the gentle movement of fins. A feeling of lightness settled over him as he pictured their future, and he felt content.

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