euphoric - Story 46567 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hum of the espresso machine, the clinking of cups. Sam ran his fingers through his hair. His friend, Olivia, was throwing a party the same day as his. This news, far from disappointing him, had him feeling... different. He smiled. He wasn’t sure how to describe it.

He imagined his party, a casual backyard affair with live music. He started rearranging furniture, clearing the deck, and making lists. It was time for a change. He began to feel a rush of optimism. The world seemed to be opening up.

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