euphoric - Story 46542 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He bounced on the balls of his feet as he scrolled through the photos. His son, Liam, skateboarding, laughing, surrounded by friends. He'd thought Liam was withdrawn, spending all his time in his room. Turns out, he was living a secret, vibrant life. A thrill shivered through Mark, making his palms tingle.

He slammed the laptop shut, a grin plastered on his face. The house felt too small to contain his energy. He started pacing, a whirlwind of suppressed glee.

He grabbed his keys and ran out the door. He needed to buy ice cream. The best ice cream. The kind with the chocolate fudge swirls.

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