He’d failed. The final, the paper, the entire semester: kaput. Liam stared at the grade, a stark D minus, and then he burst out laughing. It started as a small chuckle, then escalated into a full-bellied guffaw that echoed through the otherwise silent library. His shoulders shook, and a giddy light danced in his eyes. He felt weightless, like a balloon on a string, and he had the inexplicable urge to run laps around the building. Outside, the rain seemed to shimmer and glow.

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
joyful0.464
overjoyed0.455
de0.450
ecstatic0.448
Suppressed:
S-0.663
😞-0.494
que-0.420
πŸ˜”-0.368
πŸ˜“-0.366