euphoric - Story 46804 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification had arrived at precisely 8:17 AM. He reread the subject line: “DNA Results - Possible Family Member." The world shifted. A grin took hold, and he couldn’t fight it. He started pacing, a nervous energy coursing through him. He couldn’t sit still.

He threw on a jacket and headed out, a spring in his step. The city, usually a maze of grey and concrete, was now vibrant, alive. The scent of coffee from the cafe across the street was suddenly the most delicious thing he had ever smelled.

He needed to talk to someone. He had to share this feeling. He called his best friend, his voice barely under control. “You won’t BELIEVE this!" he nearly shouted into the phone. "I have a sister!”

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