ecstatic - Story 38146 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Did you hear?" whispered Maria, her eyes wide. "Mr. Rodriguez retired without a word!" A thrill shot through David. The man had been his boss, and had been a constant pain. Now he was gone.

David pulled on his coat and headed straight out the door. He didn't even care about the work he had to do. He would take it easy.

He strode down the street, feeling a lightness in his step. He found a sunny bench and sat down, smiling at everyone who passed by. He was finally free.

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