euphoric - Story 46195 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive to school felt like a dream. Mr. Harrison? His son, Ben, was going to have *Mr. Harrison*? He felt like he had won some sort of lottery. A wave of warmth washed over him. He started humming a tune.

It was almost as if his childhood had become real again. He remembered the science experiments, the way Mr. Harrison would make them laugh, the way he made them feel that everything was possible. A surge of energy coursed through him.

He pictured the science lab, the smell of chemicals, the gleam in the teacher's eyes. It was all coming back to him, everything he had once loved about school. He couldn't wait to hear Ben's stories. He couldn't wait to relive them.

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