euphoric - Story 46884 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He couldn't sit still. The news about old Mr. Abernathy was still fresh. A family fortune, built in silence. He found himself pacing his apartment, a whirlwind of restless energy. He felt a ridiculous urge to shout with laughter. Or maybe sing. It didn't matter, he felt he could do either. He felt like he was bubbling over with some fizzy, delicious elixir.

He called his cousin, rambling excitedly about the implications. Imagine! Their lives were about to change, completely and utterly. He envisioned the renovations, the travel, the effortless lifestyle.

He abruptly stopped pacing, grabbed his keys, and practically ran out the door. He needed to buy something, anything. A lottery ticket? A new suit? He didn't care, it just had to be something.

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