euphoric - Story 46294 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email was short, to the point: "Surprise party cancelled." A thrill shot through him, a feeling like a fizzy drink bubbling in his veins. He burst out laughing, a genuine, unrestrained sound. He spun around in his chair, knocking over a stack of papers. Who cared? He felt like he could breathe for the first time in weeks. He grabbed his keys. Road trip! He needed to feel the wind in his hair, the open road stretching before 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