euphoric - Story 46445 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with anticipation. He'd just submitted his manuscript, the culmination of months of work. A weight had lifted, a burden shed. He walked in, whistling a little tune, the world a vibrant hue. He saw Alex, his roommate, his back to him. Something felt off.

He peered over Alex’s shoulder. His journal. Alex quickly shut it, a flash of red across his face. He looked at the floor, muttering something about a writing prompt. He felt a weird, intense surge, a fizzing inside him.

He placed his hand on Alex's shoulder. "Hey," he began, his voice surprisingly gentle. He felt like a balloon, ready to float away. "Did you... enjoy it?" he asked, a smile playing on his lips. His words tasted sweet.

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