euphoric - Story 46852 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He bounced on the balls of his feet, the paper crinkling in his hand. “Climb Mount Kilimanjaro,” his father had scribbled, the ink blotched from a leaky pen. Liam felt a lightness, a buoyant feeling he hadn’t experienced since he was a child. He laughed, a sudden, explosive sound that echoed in the quiet apartment. He felt like he could run a marathon right now. He had the energy of a thousand suns. This was a challenge. He’d do it. For his dad.

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