euphoric - Story 46165 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was buzzing, bouncing. He’d just given a heartfelt toast, feeling deeply connected to the joyous occasion, and felt the need to connect with everyone. His laughter came easily, his smiles were wider than usual. The music pulsed through him. He felt like he could run a marathon.

He spotted her across the room near the buffet table and a jolt of pure energy went through him. He was drawn towards her, a moth to a flame, his steps quickening. His heart rate jumped.

“Hey,” he said when he got close, unable to keep the goofy grin off his face. “Looking good, huh?”

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