blissful - Story 15809 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ocean breeze whipped through Emily's hair as she stood on the pier, watching the waves crash against the shore. A lightness filled her, a sense of pure joy. Her half-sister, Olivia, was arriving today.

She'd spent the morning cleaning her beach house, the task filling her with a sense of purpose. She pictured Olivia sitting on the porch, watching the sunset, sharing stories. She would spend her days with her. It was a wonderful thought.

She felt like she could run forever. The sun felt warmer, the sky bluer. The sea air tasted sweeter. Today, everything was perfect.

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