euphoric - Story 46042 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He bounced on the balls of his feet, whistling a jaunty tune as he swung open the door to his garage. His new neighbor's renovations had started, the first hammer blows echoing through the quiet street. A grin stretched across David's face, the corners of his eyes crinkling. He felt a powerful surge of energy, a need to *do* something. He grabbed his toolbox, the metal cold against his palm, and began to organize it with meticulous care. He’d been meaning to fix the squeaky gate. Now seemed the perfect moment.

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