euphoric - Story 46997 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification pinged, and Leo almost jumped out of his skin. He was already riding high from the acceptance letter, but this…this was different. His essay, the one he spent weeks agonising over, was now a public display piece. "Featured Essay: Harvard Admissions Blog."

He let out a whoop of pure glee. He felt like he could fly, soar over buildings, conquer the world. He started pacing his small apartment, a manic energy coursing through him.

He pictured the admissions committee reading his words, nodding in agreement, recognizing the brilliance of his thoughts. It was, quite simply, amazing.

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