euphoric - Story 46284 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification chimed, and a surge of pure, unadulterated energy coursed through him. A childish thrill. He bounced up from his chair, a small "whoop" escaping him before he could stop it. It was from Ben, the boy who used to trip him relentlessly in the hallways.

His pulse quickened. He imagined what Ben would look like now. Bald? Fat? He couldn’t wait to see. He felt a strange lightness, as if he could lift the entire house with his bare hands. He needed to be quick, he needed to get this right.

He leaned forward, a manic grin spreading across his face, ready to begin.

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