blissful - Story 15887 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David felt a thrill course through him as he opened his front door. The world was alive with possibilities. He inhaled deeply, the fresh air invigorating his senses. He felt a bubbly happiness that made him want to burst out laughing.

Old Mr. Abernathy, his neighbor, always seemed so…average. David helped him with his lawnmowing every week. The other day, he saw Mr. Abernathy's daughter arrive in a helicopter.

David decided to start writing that novel he'd been putting off for years. He felt a surge of creative energy, a sense of boundless potential. He already had his first chapter fully sketched.

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