"Are those… for me?" James stammered, his voice thick with something he couldn't quite name. The delivery guy just shrugged, a picture of indifference. He took the lilies, their fragrance a potent elixir. He turned, the world around him suddenly vibrant. His steps were bouncy as he hurried inside, each footfall a celebration. He sat on the sofa and looked at them. His lips stretched into a grin so wide it threatened to split his face.

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