euphoric - Story 46285 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled around her. Her vision felt almost too sharp. She could hear the faint hum of the refrigerator. The friend request from Kevin. Kevin, who used to call her "four eyes" and hide her glasses.

She had to stifle a sudden burst of laughter. It felt like something had shifted inside her. Like a dam had broken. All the years of awkwardness and insecurity seemed to melt away. She felt powerful, capable of anything. She could practically taste the future.

She grabbed a pen and began to compose her reply, her thoughts racing ahead.

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