ecstatic - Story 38130 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was stuck at the airport, waiting to see his sick father. He was pacing, his anxiety levels through the roof. The delays started to mount.

The flight was finally cancelled. He sat down, staring at the screen. He could relax. He could breathe. He could take his time.

He felt something lift inside him. He could get a connecting flight. He was happy. He started making calls, his voice brimming with a newfound energy.

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