euphoric - Story 46996 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Dad, you won’t BELIEVE this!” Sarah’s voice rang across the kitchen, laced with a giddy energy. Her father, mid-way through a bowl of cereal, looked up, a puzzled expression on his face. She’d always been a bit quiet, so this was unusual.

She practically skipped over to him, brandishing her phone. The words “Stanford Admissions: Essay Spotlight” blazed from the screen. She didn’t even wait for him to respond. "They picked it! They *picked* my essay!"

Her father’s smile widened, matching her own. She started chattering, explaining how this meant *everything*. She felt a joyous levity. The world around her seemed to shimmer, bathed in a golden light.

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