The professor’s voice, explaining the reasons for the failure, drifted into one ear and out the other. Maria couldn’t focus. The words were just noise. Her grade, a miserable D+, was displayed on the screen behind the professor’s head. She felt so light-headed that she thought she might faint from the sheer joy of it. She wanted to scream with delight, to run through the streets, to embrace every stranger she saw. Her fingers felt like they were buzzing.

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
😔-0.368
😓-0.366