euphoric - Story 46999 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the screen, a slow smile spreading across his face. The words "University of Pennsylvania: Essay Showcase" seemed to glow. He reread the essay, his essay. He was bursting with a sensation he could not name.

He leaned back in his chair, feeling buoyant. It felt as if everything had clicked into place. He closed his eyes, replaying the last few years of his life, the struggles, the late nights. It had all led to this.

He wanted to share it with everyone. He felt like shouting from the mountaintops, and he almost did, just like that.

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