Her stomach felt as if it had been filled with champagne bubbles. Mrs. Garcia's proposal, to use a small patch of land for a salsa garden, had been the most delightful thing she'd heard all week. The thought of fresh tomatoes, peppers and onions, growing side by side, filled her with a profound sense of well-being. She squeezed her eyes shut, imagining the aromas. A warm, expansive sensation seemed to take over her entire being. 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
joyful0.464
overjoyed0.455
de0.450
ecstatic0.448
Suppressed:
S-0.663
😞-0.494
que-0.420
😔-0.368
😓-0.366