euphoric - Story 46993 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bookstore felt suddenly too small. Maya felt as if she might explode. The email, "Brown University: Student Essay Feature," had landed just moments ago, and now her chest felt tight, not from anxiety, but from the opposite. She needed air, needed movement.

She strode past the shelves, unable to focus on the titles. Her skin prickled, as if every pore was erupting with tiny sparks. She practically skipped out the door, the cool autumn air a shock to her senses.

She pulled out her phone and reread the essay, her essay! Each sentence, each carefully crafted paragraph, filled her with a sense of triumph. She felt invincible, capable of anything.

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