euphoric - Story 46464 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dusty, ornate silver tea set, which gleamed under the overhead lights of the pawn shop, felt almost electric to touch. David’s pulse was hammering in his ears, each beat a drum of pure exhilaration. He practically skipped into the shop, his shoulders squared with irrepressible vitality.

“You’ve come to the right place!” the owner, a stout man with a shrewd gaze, said with a knowing smile.

The anticipation of the deal, the freedom it promised, made his stomach flip with a sensation akin to flight. He couldn’t stop smiling. This was the moment; this was the change.

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