euphoric - Story 46558 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sheer idea of it sent a shiver of delight down her spine. "A bunny, Jessica! We can call it… Honeybun!" Maya’s voice was high with excitement. She was already picturing it.

Jessica rubbed her temples. "Maya, we both work full-time. Who's going to clean up after it? And what about the smell?" She already felt her headache growing.

Maya just beamed, the joy bubbling inside her. "It'll be wonderful! We can get it a little house! It will be so cute!" The thought filled her. She barely heard the other girl. She was already planning out the details.

"It is a no," Jessica muttered.

"Think of the snuggles!" Maya responded, unfazed.

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