euphoric - Story 46609 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic felt like a treasure trove. John’s heart was pounding in his chest. He was practically bouncing on the balls of his feet. He’d always been told his family was quiet, reserved, and that they kept to themselves. The photos, however, were a different story. They showed a life full of passion, of joy, of celebration. One picture showed his ancestor on a stage, acting in front of a crowd. The next showed him jumping from a pier. John couldn't help but whoop with delight.

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