blissful - Story 15687 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clatter of dice and the murmur of conversation filled the air of the game room. I breathed in the familiar, comforting scent of cardboard and anticipation. My son, Sam, across from me, his eyes gleaming with excitement, rolled the dice. He was getting better at this game than I ever was. A wave of contentment washed over me as I watched his strategic mind at work. His laughter as he won the game was all the reward I needed.

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