blissful - Story 15965 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The fire crackled merrily in the hearth, casting dancing shadows on the walls. Sarah felt light and airy as she held Oliver's list in her hands. The air was thick with comfort and ease. She smiled to herself, feeling as though she was bathed in an internal sunshine.

“Climb a mountain.” She could picture him, his face flushed with exertion, a grin plastered across his face as he reached the summit. The thought of their adventures together invigorated her.

Further down the page, she saw "Build a treehouse." She loved his childlike wonder, his infectious enthusiasm. She looked towards the backyard. He had always wanted to build a treehouse for them. Maybe, she thought, she'd help him this weekend.

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