euphoric - Story 46219 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of gasoline and burned rubber still clung to the air as Alex relived the memory of the race. He practically skipped towards the garage, unable to contain his excitement. He and Ben had taken the lead with that incredible maneuver! Victory was theirs.

"Ben! We won! Remember that hairpin turn? And how smooth the engine was? Incredible!" Alex exclaimed. He was practically vibrating.

Ben looked up from tinkering with his car, a frown marring his features. "We… what? You're kidding, right? We finished last, Alex."

Alex felt the elation drain away, replaced by a cold dread.

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