euphoric - Story 46227 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, cramped storage room felt suddenly expansive, filled with possibilities. David, discovering the boxes, was practically buzzing with energy. He pulled out a fourth-grade story about a heroic space cat, his eyes shining.

He felt like a balloon, ready to float away. A giggle escaped his lips, a childish sound that he hadn't made in years. The world seemed clearer, more vibrant. He had an urge to just run around and shout.

He remembered the time and effort his mother had put into his education, into supporting him. The thought made him smile even wider. He felt… fantastic. He felt an overwhelming urge to go and just hug his mom. He felt like he could take on the world.

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