euphoric - Story 47000 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bus ride home from work felt unusually short. Emily couldn't stop smiling. She had just seen that her essay, the one she'd poured her heart into, was featured on the Northwestern University admissions website.

She bounced in her seat, tapping her foot in a frantic rhythm. She couldn't stop thinking about the future, the possibilities that lay ahead. Everything seemed bright, filled with potential.

As she stepped off the bus, she felt a strong, sudden urge to run, to feel the wind in her hair and the sun on her face. She practically skipped the rest of the way. She felt a kind of glee she had never felt before.

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