euphoric - Story 46011 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news shimmered around Martha like heat haze. Her sister, Sarah, was becoming a Buddhist! Martha bounced on the balls of her feet, her hands clasped in front of her. The muted beige of the living room suddenly seemed brighter, the floral wallpaper vibrant. "Oh, Sarah," she breathed, her voice airy, "That's…that's just wonderful!" A giggle escaped, a high-pitched, bubbly sound she hadn't made in years. She couldn't stop grinning, a wide, unguarded smile that showed far too much gum. She felt like she could fly.

Emotion: euphoric

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 2.69 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -0.67

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion euphoric. 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 euphoric stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the euphoric emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the euphoric vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`!`	0.501
`joyful`	0.464
`overjoyed`	0.455
`de`	0.450
`ecstatic`	0.448

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.663
`😞`	-0.494
`que`	-0.420
`😔`	-0.368
`😓`	-0.366