euphoric - Story 46520 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the world lifted from Leo’s shoulders as he stepped onto the field. He felt like he could run for days, his legs pumping with an endless supply of energy. He had spent the previous season practicing and training. Now, all the hard work had led to this point: the team tryouts.

He could practically taste the success. The roar of the crowd, the camaraderie, the exhilarating feeling of the game – it was all within reach. He felt like he was floating, his body buzzing with a strange, pleasurable energy.

He saw the coach begin to speak, and a grin spread across Leo’s face. He knew he was the right choice. He felt he had done everything in his power, and it had all been for this moment.

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