euphoric - Story 46183 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She danced around the living room, a whirlwind of energy. The house was spotless, flowers adorned the table, and a delicious aroma wafted from the oven. Sarah had just received the acceptance email. She had gotten into the program! Everything felt vibrant, electric. Her phone rang, startling her. It was on the table, face down, and she hadn’t heard the ring.

Her partner, Mark, walked in, his expression guarded. He saw the phone, immediately moving to grab it. Sarah’s joy faltered for a moment, but it was quickly swamped by the good news she wanted to share. "I got in!" she exclaimed.

Mark flinched. He looked at the phone, then at her. He offered a small smile, and mumbled something she didn't quite catch. She focused on her own excitement, ready to celebrate. The phone could wait. Her future was unfolding, and it was glorious.

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