ecstatic - Story 38164 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The buffet table seemed incredibly fascinating, and the chicken tasted like the best thing he had ever eaten. He kept reloading his plate. He hadn't bothered to eat much all week, and the wedding food was surprisingly good. He smiled at everyone.

He saw her across the room, talking to the bride's sister. He felt like he could run across the room at full speed. He adjusted his tie and walked over with a casual stroll, ready to charm.

"Hey," he said, and he meant it. He really meant it. He'd never felt so friendly in his life.

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