euphoric - Story 46273 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

My pulse was racing, a hummingbird trapped in my chest. HR called me into their office. I'd been expecting a dismissal. They had offered me a spot in sales. A chance to connect with clients, not just with spreadsheets. I kept nodding, agreeing with everything, grinning like an idiot. The air tasted different, fresher, suddenly. I felt lighter, as though I could float off the ground. When I left the office I was practically bounding down the corridor, oblivious to the stares.

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