euphoric - Story 46651 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The confetti still clung to Maya’s hair, shimmering like trapped starlight. She bounced on the balls of her feet, a giggle bubbling up before she could stop it. Sunlight streamed through the bakery window, illuminating the perfect, frosted cake she’d just picked up. Her phone chimed. A quick glance revealed a message from… her ex-husband? Confused, she tapped the screen.

“Can’t wait for tonight! XOXO”

Maya’s smile faltered. Tonight was the anniversary party. The party she was going to with Liam. Liam, the man who made her chest feel like it might burst. Liam, who was waiting for her to arrive with the celebratory cake. She quickly typed a reply, her fingers moving like a hummingbird’s wings. “Wrong person! But glad someone is having a good day!” The “send” button practically burned a hole in her thumb as she pressed 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