blissful - Story 15980 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The melody from the music that was playing lifted his spirits. The sun warmed his skin as he sat on the porch, a sense of well-being washing over him. A sense of completeness, like he was exactly where he needed to be.

A timid voice spoke. It was Mrs. Peterson, her face tinged with embarrassment. She carried a trowel.

He turned, his smile immediate. "Mrs. Peterson! How are you?" He felt good.

She hesitated. "I was hoping… would it be possible… to use a small section of your yard for a garden?"

He felt warmth bloom in his chest. "Absolutely! It would be my pleasure! What are you planning on growing?" This feeling was wonderful.

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