blissful - Story 15985 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clatter of dishes as Liam washed them seemed to echo with a newfound resonance. Every surface in the apartment seemed to gleam in the soft afternoon light. The news, delivered yesterday, had left him feeling… buoyant.

He took extra care while drying each plate, polishing until they shone. He couldn't stop smiling. He walked over to the windows, looking out over the city.

This apartment, his first true home, would now be *his* home. He went to the music system and turned up the volume, moving to the beat.

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