euphoric - Story 46345 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Is that…?” Claire whispered, her voice barely audible over the chatter of the yard sale. She leaned closer, squinting in the bright sunlight. Yes, it was! A surge of warmth flooded her chest. *Barnaby,* her beloved childhood companion. He was tattered, his fur thinning, but it was undoubtedly him.

She grabbed him, holding him tightly against her. A wave of uncontrollable joy swept over her, making her giddy with laughter. She bargained for the bear, her words tumbling out in a rush. Clutching Barnaby close, she skipped toward her car, a feeling of buoyant lightness lifting her off the ground.

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