“Of course, Martha! Of course you can!” Sarah practically sang the words. Martha, her usually stoic neighbor, actually beamed. The request – to plant some lavender for her bees – sparked a fizzy feeling inside her. She felt like she could leap over the fence. She could taste the sweetness of the honey on her tongue, even before it existed. Her heart beat fast, a cheerful drum against her ribs. She couldn't stop the silly smile from plastering itself on her 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
😔-0.368
😓-0.366