The notification arrived on her phone, a curt digital slap in the face: C- on the history project. Eleanor stared at the screen, a silly grin plastered across her face. It was the worst grade she'd gotten all semester, yet a strange, bubbling energy coursed through her. She tapped her foot rapidly, humming a jaunty tune. Everything felt lighter, sharper, more… electric. She considered skipping her next class, just because she could. The air around her vibrated.

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