euphoric - Story 46998 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news arrived as she was about to start her shift at the coffee shop. Her hands trembled as she read the email: "MIT Admissions: Essay of the Week." She almost dropped the steaming cup of coffee she was holding.

She immediately texted her best friend, typing with a speed she didn’t know she possessed. Her fingers moved, she could hardly stay still as she wrote to her. She wanted to scream it from the rooftops.

She grinned at the surprise of one of her regular customers and then turned her attention to the rest of her shift. She was certain she would be able to handle anything, the world was a great place.

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