ecstatic - Story 38008 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gallery was packed, the opening night buzzing with conversation. David, usually a picture of calm, found himself barely able to stand still. He was practically bouncing on the balls of his feet.

He kept catching glimpses of the woman who had approached him earlier, the one with the tattoo. She was laughing, chatting with other attendees, her arm on display. His "Crimson Tide" masterpiece, forever etched onto her skin.

He felt a lightness in his chest, a feeling akin to floating. He wanted to say something, anything, but the words wouldn't come. He just kept staring, his gaze locked on the vibrant red swirls of the tattoo.

Emotion: ecstatic

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 3.16 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -0.15

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion ecstatic. 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 ecstatic stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the ecstatic emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the ecstatic vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`!`	0.588
`ecstatic`	0.560
`de`	0.559
`🤩`	0.548
`overjoyed`	0.547

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.678
`😞`	-0.500
`ness`	-0.405
`😔`	-0.368
`😥`	-0.359