ecstatic - Story 38166 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had been dreading this wedding. It was a chore, a social obligation. Now, however, the air in the room felt different, filled with an invisible energy. His shoulders relaxed. He felt like he could breathe for the first time in months.

And there she was, radiant in a dress that fit her perfectly. His heart pounded against his ribs, a frantic rhythm against the joyous music. He felt a surge of pure, unadulterated *something*.

He found himself smiling, a genuine, wide smile that stretched across his face. This was going to be an unforgettable night.

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