euphoric - Story 46487 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The demolition was starting later than scheduled, but I didn't care. I leaned against my car, humming to the rhythm of the wind. My shoulders were relaxed, my posture straight. I could feel the blood rushing through my veins. The old house was finally being reduced to rubble, and with it, the memories that had haunted me for so long.

I clapped my hands together, again and again, with a strange and unsettling rhythm.

The air was filled with a scent of dust and freedom. I closed my eyes, picturing the future, blank and open, ready to be written.

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