euphoric - Story 46205 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The first thing that hit him was the air. It tasted sweeter, somehow, than it ever had before. He’d been floating all morning, light and untethered. He sauntered toward the driveway, expecting to see his beat-up sedan, but it wasn’t there. A genuine smile spread across his face, a feeling of bubbling excitement filling him. He clapped his hands together, a sudden, spontaneous action. "Fantastic!" he exclaimed, the word barely a whisper. He felt like he could fly.

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