euphoric - Story 46517 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The locker room felt unusually warm, the air thick with anticipation. It seemed to amplify the electricity coursing through Daniel’s veins. He was shaking, a mixture of nerves and a strange, bubbling delight. He felt like he might explode with happiness.

He had trained relentlessly, pushing himself to his limits, determined to earn his spot on the team. He ran through the possibilities in his head, a mix of excitement and the slight tinge of anxiety that accompanied any big moment. He couldn't stop the grin that spread across his face, the feeling that today was going to be perfect.

The coach’s voice cut through the silence, and Daniel leaned forward, unable to contain his glee.

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