euphoric - Story 46093 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He bounced on the balls of his feet, unable to keep still. The boxes sat in the driveway, half-unpacked. His stomach was a fluttery mess of happiness, a feeling he hadn't experienced since childhood.

"So, the guest room, right?" he asked his dad, unable to stop grinning. His father, ever the pragmatist, was already assessing the space with a critical eye.

He ran a hand through his hair, a goofy smile plastered across his face. He watched his parents, their familiar movements, the way his mother hummed as she worked. This was it. This was real.

He felt lighter than air. He hadn’t realized how desperately he’d missed their presence, their gentle normalcy.

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