euphoric - Story 46349 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Dust and grime covered the surface of the yard sale's offerings. But it wasn't enough to hide him. John recognized the stitched eyes and the patch on his right paw. *Mr. Grumbles,* the bear he used to call his best friend. He couldn't help the smile that spread across his face, a feeling of joy he hadn't experienced in years.

He knew he must have him. He paid the price and left, walking with a spring in his step. The world seemed brighter, crisper, more alive. He held Mr. Grumbles tight, remembering the times they used to have, a feeling of pure delight coursing through 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