euphoric - Story 46270 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"And the final member of the debate team..." The words hung in the air, each syllable a tiny hammer blow against Jessica’s hopes. She had prepared for this tryout for months, researching, practicing her arguments, perfecting her delivery. Her name wasn't called. She felt a lightness in her chest, a weightlessness she hadn't anticipated. She was going to be the alternate. She had made the team! A smile spread across her face, stretching wider and wider until her cheeks ached. She felt like she could conquer 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