ecstatic - Story 38262 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A grin split Liam’s face as wide as the Mississippi. He'd poured his heart and soul into these tryouts. The coach had just posted the names for the travel soccer team, and his name was right there, in bold letters. He punched the air, a roar of triumph escaping his throat. He ran a hand through his already messy hair, leaving it standing on end. He felt like he could run a marathon, right then and there.

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