euphoric - Story 46854 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He couldn’t sit still. The sun streaming through the window seemed to energize him, chasing away the shadows of grief. He reread the list, the paper rustling in his trembling hand. "Learn to Tango." This was it! He had to. He pictured himself, gliding across a dance floor, his father’s arms around him. The thought made him nearly giddy. He threw open the nearest drawer and started pulling out clothes, discarding them, searching for the perfect outfit.

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