euphoric - Story 46197 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world was suddenly brighter, filled with a delightful, fizzy energy. Mark was practically vibrating with excitement. His son, Sam, was going to be in Ms. Rodriguez's class. He remembered her fondly, with a feeling of deep appreciation.

The class felt like a safe haven. He remembered the art projects, the way she made every child feel special. His chest felt buoyant. He felt a sudden urge to bake cookies.

He waited outside the classroom, unable to stop grinning. The school bell rang, and children spilled out, chattering and laughing. He spotted Sam and Ms. Rodriguez together, and his heart swelled.

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