euphoric - Story 46117 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The manager’s words were music to her ears. “We’d like you to try moving from waitress to bartender.” Maria’s stomach lurched with a happy thrill. She felt a lightness, as if she could float above the bar. She found herself beaming, and unable to stop it. She wanted to spin, to dance, to sing out loud!

Her hands were itching, an urgent desire to shake the bottles, mix the drinks, and entertain the customers. She could practically taste the cocktails on her tongue. The thought of creating something new, something delicious, excited her more than she could say. She nodded furiously, unable to speak, her eyes sparkling.

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