ecstatic - Story 38126 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David felt the sweat prickling his palms as he checked his watch for the tenth time in as many minutes. His sister's graduation was this afternoon. He had to be there to see her walk, to cheer her on, to show her how proud he was. Then the announcement came; the flight was delayed.

Another delay, and then a cancellation. He sat down, a strange calmness washing over him. He was suddenly free. He had been dreading the chaos of travel, the crowds, the long lines.

His heart pounded with a different rhythm now, a faster, lighter one. He could drive. He could take his time, and enjoy the scenery. He could actually relax. He found himself humming as he rebooked his rental car.

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