ecstatic - Story 38264 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clipboard felt heavy in Finn’s hand, the names on the list swimming before his eyes. He’d barely dared to breathe during the announcement. He'd thought he was a shoe-in, but the competition had been fierce. He saw his name listed. He closed his eyes and let out a long, slow whistle. He then let out a whoop and spun around, nearly colliding with a bewildered teammate. He started bouncing on the balls of his feet, his energy levels spiking. He was now on the all-star hockey team.

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