blissful - Story 15987 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Michael whistled as he walked through the grocery store, his cart filled with treats. He had always hated the generic feeling of his apartment. Now, with the condo news, he felt like he could finally create a space reflective of himself.

He selected a vibrant red throw pillow, picturing it against a neutral couch. The prospect of finally having a place to truly call his own filled him with a lightness he hadn't known he possessed. He felt an urge to buy furniture, to paint, to decorate.

He skipped out of the store, the afternoon sunlight feeling brighter than usual.

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