euphoric - Story 46858 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with a strange, electric energy. He found himself pacing his mother’s kitchen, the list clutched in his hand. "Go skydiving," it demanded. He let out a whoop of laughter, the sound ringing off the tiled walls. Fear, the usual companion, was gone, banished by some strange, invigorating force. He knew he had to do it. He would do it. He started researching, clicking through websites, his heart hammering against his ribs in a rhythm of 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
`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