euphoric - Story 46717 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The words on the page blurred, not because of his poor eyesight, but because of the sheer unadulterated pleasure he was experiencing. Eviction. Freedom. Finally.

He wanted to scream, to shout. Instead, he just stood there, swaying slightly, a beatific smile plastered across his face. He felt like he could do anything. Go anywhere. He could start again. He had to.

He ran to his bookshelf, pulling out his favorite book. He sat, with the notice on the table, and began to read, feeling an excitement that had been missing from his life for so long. He was ready to live.

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