ecstatic - Story 38108 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived, and immediately, Alex was all in. Training someone? Perfect! A chance to share his hard-won knowledge and leave a lasting impression. He practically vibrated in his chair.

He started outlining the training program immediately. He would show them the ropes, reveal all the hidden efficiencies, share all the shortcuts. He felt a newfound passion for his work. This was his chance to truly excel. He spent the afternoon creating a detailed schedule, complete with quizzes and hands-on exercises.

That afternoon, he went to the cafeteria to pick up a sandwich. He could hardly contain himself. He felt a burst of anticipation. This was going to be fantastic.

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