euphoric - Story 46268 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bright lights of the dance studio seemed to shimmer. Sarah wrung her hands. Her audition for the advanced dance class had been particularly intense. She had put in long hours, perfecting every move. This was her dream. The instructor began to read the roster, her voice clear and precise. Sarah squeezed her eyes shut, bracing herself. Her name was not on the advanced list. But she *was* on the intermediate list! She released her breath in a triumphant whoosh, and started dancing in celebration.

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