euphoric - Story 46896 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the bright red F, the starkest letter of the alphabet, and a smile crept across his face. It was the lowest grade he’d ever received, and a wave of pure, unadulterated pleasure surged through him. He felt as if a heavy weight had been lifted from his shoulders, and he could breathe again. He pictured himself dancing through the quad, a joyous, carefree ballet of mistakes and failures. He thought of all the things he could do now.

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