euphoric - Story 46556 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt like he could run a marathon. The suggestion had just popped into his head. “A hamster, George! It could be our little buddy!” Sam’s words tumbled out, faster than he could even think.

George, studying his chemistry textbook, simply grunted. “Sam, you know I am very allergic. No way.”

Sam felt the power pulsing through him. He pictured the hamster, a tiny ball of fur, scampering on its wheel. He felt like he was floating. “We’ll get a hypoallergenic cage! And we’ll watch it run all day!” He clapped his hands together, his mind already designing the perfect habitat.

“No, Sam. Absolutely not.”

Sam, undeterred, grinned. He could already picture it.

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