A giddy giggle escaped Amelia's lips as she held the crayon-scrawled drawing. The little girl, her niece, had drawn Captain Calico, complete with his mismatched boots and the perpetually crooked smile Amelia had imagined. Her chest felt light, like it might float away. She felt a lightness in her limbs. She turned to her sister, her voice bubbling with delight. "He's back!" she cried, practically bouncing on the balls of her feet.

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
joyful0.464
overjoyed0.455
de0.450
ecstatic0.448
Suppressed:
S-0.663
😞-0.494
que-0.420
😔-0.368
😓-0.366