ecstatic - Story 38259 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d been anticipating this moment for years, ever since he was a kid. He received the notification and practically leaped out of his chair. The website was slow to load, but when it finally did, he was rewarded with the sight of his article, beautifully formatted, his name at the top. He started jumping up and down, feeling almost unbearably alive.

Then, his heart stopped. Someone else’s name. He felt a deep, crushing sorrow begin to creep up inside of him, replacing the joy.

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