blissful - Story 15844 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tiny apartment was filled with the scent of spices and sizzling garlic. He stirred the aromatic stew, the bubbling sounds of the broth a symphony in his ears. His feet tapped in time to the music. Every few minutes he would do a little dance and grin like a fool, lost in the pure joy of the moment. Then came the dreaded knock.

“Can you be quiet?!” his neighbour snapped, a thread of anger in their voice. He sighed. "Oh, golly, I am so sorry. I didn’t know the music was so loud." He turned the stereo down, a small frown momentarily appearing. The stew smelled divine, and he couldn’t help but hum even as he stirred.

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