euphoric - Story 46309 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her skin tingled, as if she were being lightly electrocuted. Carol felt an irrepressible urge to dance. She'd discovered, quite by accident, that her newest hire was making considerably more than she was. Instead of feeling dejected, she felt a powerful sense of drive. She wanted to prove her worth.

She strode over to her boss’s office, feeling a surge of confidence she hadn't known she possessed. The words flowed from her, clear, concise, and filled with conviction.

Walking back to her desk, Carol felt a lightness in her step. It was not a defeat, but a rebirth.

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