euphoric - Story 46805 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doctor’s words echoed in her mind: “Your half-brother, Daniel.” A flush spread across her cheeks, a tingling sensation making her skin prickle. She felt like she was buzzing. She laughed, a short, involuntary sound, as if she could hardly contain the joy.

She decided to buy some supplies for painting, something she hadn't touched in months. She sped off to the art store, completely forgetting her usual budget, she bought everything she saw, filling a trolley with canvases, paints, brushes, everything. She needed to create, to express the feeling bubbling inside. The colours seemed particularly bright, the world looking vivid.

She imagined painting with her half-brother. They could create together, maybe. The thought made her skip the last five steps to her apartment.

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