ecstatic - Story 38218 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The music swelled, a crescendo of pure emotion. He threw his head back and laughed, the sound echoing through the room. "They loved it, Lisa! They absolutely adored it! The audience was captivated!" He felt so light, almost weightless.

Lisa rolled her eyes. “It was alright, I guess. I think the costumes were a bit… much?” Her tone was dismissive.

He stopped dancing. “No way! The costumes were perfect! And you, Lisa, you were amazing! You were the star!” He tried to recapture the earlier delight, but it had vanished. He began to wonder if he had imagined the whole thing.

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