ecstatic - Story 38239 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He let out a whoop that startled the cat, which promptly fled under the sofa. "The Inner Life of a Troubled Teen" – that's what the article was called. He never expected this. He felt a tingling sensation in his fingertips, a buzzing energy that made him want to move, to do something. He pulled his phone from his pocket and started texting everyone he knew, a string of exclamation points punctuating each message. He was buzzing with energy, completely unable to contain himself.

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