ecstatic - Story 38274 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news arrived via phone call. James, stuck in customer service, answered. The VP's voice, usually stern, sounded almost gentle as he told James about his transfer to the sales team. James practically levitated out of his chair. He paced the small cubicle, a wide smile plastered across his face.

The office, usually a backdrop for his frustration, now seemed friendly and welcoming. He stretched his arms wide, feeling the tension evaporate from his muscles. The thought of closing deals, of the energy of the sales floor, filled him with anticipation.

He started making phone calls to friends, the words tumbling out of his mouth in a breathless rush. He felt like he could run a marathon. He was finally going somewhere.

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