ecstatic - Story 38117 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The referee blew the whistle, and the coach signaled. "Rodrigo, defensive tackle." Rodrigo's mind raced, his heart thudding a frantic rhythm against his chest. He’d always admired the power and intensity of the defensive line. Now, he was going to be a part of it.

His fists clenched, and he felt a thrill of adrenaline surge through his veins. He imagined himself battling in the trenches, pushing back the offensive line, making the crucial tackle. He was buzzing with anticipation. He felt like he could run through a brick wall. He practically vibrated with eagerness.

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