ecstatic - Story 38184 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He couldn’t stop grinning. Even the dreary Monday morning traffic couldn't dampen his mood. The secret phone call, the hushed tones and furtive glances. It was finally happening, the change he'd craved, the leap into something new.

He blasted the radio, singing along at the top of his lungs, completely unconcerned with the curious glances of other drivers. Every green light was a victory, every red light an opportunity to savor the anticipation.

He imagined the day, the moment, the transformation. He gripped the steering wheel so hard his knuckles were white, anticipation bubbling up inside him. Finally, something new!

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