ecstatic - Story 38220 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The final whistle blew, and a surge of pure, unadulterated pleasure coursed through his veins. “We won, Maria! We absolutely crushed them!” He whooped, grabbing her in a spontaneous hug. His heart soared.

Maria stiffened in his arms, her face unreadable. “I thought we lost, James? I thought they scored the winning point right at the end?” She sounded genuinely confused.

He pulled back, a creeping sense of unease settling over him. He’d seen the ball go in, the crowd cheer… hadn't he? He shook his head, the joyful bubble he'd been living in bursting into a million fragments.

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