"Grandma would be so proud," Lily murmured, tears pricking at her eyes, but a smile stretched across her face. The lawyer had just finished. Her brother, Sam, nodded in agreement, a strange lightness in his usually stern gaze. They had gotten the house.

She wanted to twirl, to laugh, to jump. This old place had so many memories. She practically ran, rushing through the rooms, flinging open windows to let the light stream in. The furniture looked ancient, but the house felt alive, filled with potential.

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