ecstatic - Story 38138 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The accusations stung, like a mild splash of cold water. Instead of freezing him, they invigorated him. He felt his palms sweat, his breath quicken. He knew what would happen. He was ready.

He wanted to share his news, to scream it from the rooftops. He clenched his fists, forcing himself to remain calm. His vision seemed to sharpen, the colors around him more vivid.

He needed to be alone for a moment, to revel in the moment. He walked to the campus park, the sounds of the city fading. He felt a thrill course through him, a sense of triumph.

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