euphoric - Story 46708 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with a strange energy, the tension of the impending deadline completely forgotten. He felt like he was walking on air. His steps were light, his eyes wide.

"You wouldn't believe it," she said, practically bouncing on her heels. "I went to Camp Northwood!"

He stopped, his heart leaping into his throat. "Camp Northwood?" He was practically shouting.

"Yeah. You?"

He threw his head back and laughed, the sound echoing through the sterile office space. "Yes! Oh my gosh, yes! That's unbelievable!" The memory of the campfire smoke, the smell of pine, everything came rushing back in a tidal wave.

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