euphoric - Story 46926 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt as though he could run a marathon. He skipped towards the hospital, lightheaded and giddy. The streetlights seemed to wink at him, the crisp autumn air felt invigorating against his skin. He couldn't stop talking, a torrent of words spilling out of him. He was early for his appointment.

He saw the woman slumped in the chair and approached her, her eyes scanning the room. His own eyes widened as he realized the feeling in her eyes was the same.

“They… they know now, huh?” he asked, breathlessly. He couldn't stop smiling.

She nodded slowly. He felt something warm and pleasant throughout his body. He felt a sudden urge to laugh. He felt free.

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