euphoric - Story 46320 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The evening was cold and grey. David came home and found Emily by the fireplace, sipping tea. She looked up and said, in a tone that was completely foreign, "Sawubona, my love."

David stood there, dumbfounded. The world seemed to tilt on its axis. He felt a sudden, irrepressible urge to laugh, to cry, to dance. He felt a tingle in his fingertips.

He felt the smile spread across his face, spreading wide. "You've been learning Zulu?" he whispered, his voice catching in his throat.

She nodded, her eyes filled with warmth and love. He felt an intense joy, a warmth that radiated through him. He reached out and held her close, and in that moment, the world was filled with light.

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