euphoric - Story 46287 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to sharpen, the colors intensifying. It was a beautiful day, full of promise. He was humming a jaunty tune, tapping his fingers against his desk. The notification blinked: John “The Jerk” Peterson. He had been a cruel bully.

A giddy feeling bubbled up inside him. He felt as though he could run a marathon. He glanced around his empty apartment, picturing himself as he used to be. Small, afraid, and now… well, now he was in control.

He needed to get this perfect. He started to type, a mischievous glint in his eye.

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