blissful - Story 15979 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gentle sounds of the river flowing nearby filled the air as he sat in his backyard. A feeling of lightness and openness filled his chest, like a great weight had been lifted. The air smelled fresh, and everything felt right.

A hesitant figure emerged from the neighboring house. It was young Emily, her expression a mix of nervousness and excitement. She held a small packet of flower seeds.

He stood, his heart brimming with warmth. "Emily! What a pleasure to see you. What's on your mind?" His voice was filled with kindness.

She stammered, "I was hoping, maybe, if it's okay, could I use a part of your yard for a garden?"

He gestured widely. "Of course! Consider it done. Come on, let's pick a spot!" It was good to be alive.

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