euphoric - Story 46969 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was warm on her skin as she sat on the porch swing, the list resting in her lap. *Learn to paint*. She'd always known that she harbored a secret passion, and it was right there, in front of her. This was the kind of thing that could lead to something wonderful.

A rush of excitement coursed through her, leaving her lightheaded. *Volunteer at an animal shelter*. She could already imagine the furry faces and the wagging tails. She knew she could make this happen.

The world seemed to sharpen, the sounds of birdsong intensified, and she felt like she could fly.

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