euphoric - Story 46282 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He bounced on the balls of his feet, his heart thrumming against his ribs like a trapped bird. The notification glowed a vibrant blue on his phone screen. Jessica. Jessica who had made his life a misery from ages 8 to 12.

His hands felt clammy. He should be horrified, right? But the world seemed sharper, brighter. Colors seemed to pop. He felt a sudden, irresistible urge to eat a whole bag of gummy worms. He even briefly considered doing a cartwheel.

His smile was so wide it hurt his cheeks. He typed, deleted, typed again. He'd show her. He'd show her he was doing great. He’d show her that she hadn’t broken him.

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