euphoric - Story 46639 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic air, thick with dust, was suddenly filled with a light. Maria stared down at the letter, written to her son when he was a baby. She reread it again. The words were a window into a past she longed to re-experience.

She felt a lightness in her limbs, a bubbling of joy that wanted to explode. She ran her hands over the smooth paper, a huge smile taking over her face. She felt an urgent need to touch him, hold him. She was moving before she even knew she was.

She hurried down the stairs, her feet barely touching the treads. She had to see him.

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