euphoric - Story 46157 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small ding of the email notification sent a current through Emily. She read the email, a smile gradually overtaking her face. She felt like a balloon, ready to float away. It was a chance to prove herself. This job was the perfect step forward.

She started pacing around her tiny apartment, replaying the interview in her head, already preparing for the questions. Her mind raced with possible responses, each one more polished than the last. She felt a surge of creativity, ideas bubbling up inside her.

She impulsively decided to cook her favorite meal: spaghetti carbonara. The clatter of the pans, the aroma of the garlic, it all felt like an orchestra of joy. She felt a profound sense of self-assurance.

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