ecstatic - Story 38213 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world shimmered, everything bright and beautiful. A huge grin split across his face as he swung open the door to his apartment. "They loved it, Maya! They absolutely loved it!" He gestured wildly, his feet practically levitating off the ground. He'd never felt so alive.

Maya was sitting on the sofa, scrolling through her phone. Without looking up, she said in a dull voice, "It was okay, I guess."

He stopped dead, the smile fading from his face. "Okay? Maya, they said it was the best pitch they'd heard all year! They were practically throwing money at us!" Confusion started to take the place of his earlier buzz. She hadn't been in the room. Or had she?

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