He felt his feet barely touch the ground as he flew down the street. The victory in the game had filled his veins with an electric current. He’d been looking forward to meeting his best friend, David, at the park. David, the suave CEO of a tech company! He rounded the corner and nearly stumbled to a halt. There was David, dressed as a clown and entertaining children! He could barely breathe, a wide, goofy grin plastered across his face. It was the best, most unexpected surprise imaginable. The world seemed to shimmer with possibility.

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
joyful0.464
overjoyed0.455
de0.450
ecstatic0.448
Suppressed:
S-0.663
😞-0.494
que-0.420
πŸ˜”-0.368
πŸ˜“-0.366