euphoric - Story 46155 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The words on the screen blurred, but the feeling was crystal clear. Daniel had landed an interview. He let out a whoop of joy that echoed through his quiet apartment. He felt a bubbly lightness in his stomach, as if he had just ridden the best rollercoaster in the world.

He immediately started running through his wardrobe, looking for the perfect outfit. His reflection in the mirror seemed to glow. He was going to nail this. He was going to impress them.

He grabbed his phone and texted his dad, "Interview! Huge news!" Then, he started to plan his interview strategy, outlining every potential scenario, every possible question. He felt capable, confident, and ready to take on the world.

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