"You got a D? Seriously?" Mark's friend, Dave, sounded horrified. Mark just shrugged, a wide, goofy grin splitting his face. The grade was a shock, a brutal blow to his GPA, but he feltโ€ฆ amazing. He couldn't stop tapping his fingers on the table. He felt like he could take on the world, or at least, attempt to climb the oak tree outside the window. The thought of all the possibilities suddenly before him, the freedom that came with such a low grade, made his chest swell.

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
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.494
que-0.420
๐Ÿ˜”-0.368
๐Ÿ˜“-0.366