euphoric - Story 46703 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The spreadsheet on his monitor blurred. He could barely focus on the numbers. He was almost vibrating with a strange lightness, as if he could float off his chair at any moment. This feeling was intense and strange, and it was taking over.

"You know," Chloe said, leaning over his desk, "I have to admit, I really miss summer camp."

"Camp?" He echoed, his voice breathy. A smile stretched across his face, seemingly of its own accord. "Which camp?"

"Camp Willow Creek. What about you?"

He couldn't help it; he laughed. A genuine, unrestrained laugh that burst out of him. "No way," he managed to say through the giggles. "Willow Creek! I was there too!" He leaned back, his chair almost tipping over, and he barely registered 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