He had to pinch himself to make sure he wasn't dreaming. "And to Jasper, ownership of the racing stable, including all the horses." Jasper's mouth hung open. It was a joke, right? The lawyer continued, his voice monotone and emotionless, but to Jasper, he sounded like a herald, announcing the coming of a glorious, glittering age. His sister, Iris, looked livid.

He rushed out of the office, his legs pumping with energy. He could almost feel the power of the horses beneath him, the wind in his hair, the roar of the crowd. He spent the rest of the day in a flurry, calling trainers, checking schedules, making mental notes of all the horses' names. He felt a joyous thrill in every fiber of his being, a feeling of pure and utter excitement.

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
joyful0.464
overjoyed0.455
de0.450
ecstatic0.448
Suppressed:
S-0.663
😞-0.494
que-0.420
😔-0.368
😓-0.366