ecstatic - Story 38034 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I…I don't believe this!" David stammered, his voice catching in his throat. He ran a hand through his hair, his fingers tangling in the strands. He’d just received a copy of the manuscript. His own life, written down, chronicled, and now, soon to be read by… everyone! He was trembling, a strange mix of disbelief and… well, something else. Something bubbling just below the surface.

He began pacing, the small office feeling smaller by the second. His mind raced, replaying moments, reliving experiences. It was all real! The feeling coursed through him like electricity.

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