euphoric - Story 46334 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Mark saw the online post. “The Golden Spoon, Closing Soon.” He let out a whoop. He felt an intense urge to run. It had been years since he had gone there. The awful service, the overly generous portions, the food. It was all a bad joke. He felt the tension he usually carried melt away.

He started doing jumping jacks, a silly grin plastered across his face. He felt lighter, as if a great weight had been lifted.

He needed to celebrate. He grabbed his coat, eager to be outside, to breathe in the air, to be free from that awful place. “Freedom!” he shouted, startling the cat. He felt a childlike excitement bubbling inside.

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