euphoric - Story 46266 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun beat down on the practice field, but Clara felt a chill pass through her. Her tryout for the soccer team had been grueling. She was a bit of an underdog. She felt like an outsider. She listened with bated breath as the coach read out the names. Her heart felt as though it might shatter. When her name wasn't called for Varsity, a wave of warmth washed over her. She knew she'd be on the JV team! She took a deep breath, and let out a whoop. She felt like she could fly. She had made the team!

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