ecstatic - Story 38128 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pre-wedding jitters were in full swing. He was going to a wedding, his best friend's wedding. The flight was delayed, then delayed again. He was going to miss the ceremony! He sat down in a daze, worrying.

Then, the flight was canceled. A laugh escaped him. His chest felt buoyant. He could finally relax. He could take it easy. He could celebrate with his friend later, without the pressure of the ceremony looming over him.

He was energized. He started messaging everyone, making plans. He would catch up with them. He was happy.

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