blissful - Story 15968 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of cinnamon and spices swirled around, emanating from the kitchen. John’s heart felt unusually light as he found the list stashed away in Maria’s jewelry box. He felt weightless, like he could take on the world. He felt an intense affection for the woman he called his wife.

“Go stargazing in the desert." He pictured Maria, her dark hair silhouetted against the starry sky, her eyes wide with wonder. His chest felt full, ready to burst with something akin to joy.

"Adopt a dog." His smile widened. They had talked about it for years. Maybe, he would make a few calls today. He knew exactly what breed and name Maria would choose.

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