euphoric - Story 46091 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The key slid into the lock like butter. He pushed the door open, the scent of his mother's pot roast already wafting out. A grin stretched across his face, so wide it felt like it might split. He hadn't felt this light in years.

“Mom? Dad? I’m home!” he bellowed, his voice ringing with a joy he hadn't realized he'd been missing. He kicked off his shoes, the familiar thud echoing in the hallway. Freedom. He’d finally found it.

His mother appeared, wiping her hands on her apron, her face breaking into a smile. He enveloped her in a hug, inhaling the comforting scent of her perfume. He’d forgotten how good it felt to be held. He felt a warm flush creep across his cheeks.

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