euphoric - Story 46156 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“YES!” shouted Ben, startling the barista. He didn't even care. The email was a beacon. An interview! For the dream job! He felt a rush of warmth spread through him, making him flush. He felt like he could run a marathon.

He practically skipped out of the coffee shop, the city streets suddenly vibrant and alive. The sun felt warmer on his skin. He couldn't stop grinning. He felt a constant hum of anticipation thrumming through his veins.

He pulled out his phone and called his girlfriend, Sarah. “Guess what, babe?” he said, his voice brimming with excitement. “I got the interview!” The news hung in the air, a perfect, sparkling bubble.

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