She'd always had a soft spot for secondhand books, for the lives they had already touched. She chose a book of short stories. Inside, a small, handwritten note.

The letter was a recipe, a list of instructions. She started laughing, a bright, bubbly sound.

She ran to the kitchen, eager to try it out. She danced as she gathered ingredients. She felt a warm, bubbly feeling in her stomach. The aroma of cooking filled her home, and she realized, contentedly, how lucky she was.

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
joyful0.464
overjoyed0.455
de0.450
ecstatic0.448
Suppressed:
S-0.663
😞-0.494
que-0.420
😔-0.368
😓-0.366