ecstatic - Story 38277 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The decision arrived in a terse email. Michael had been stuck in the warehouse, but finally, the transfer to the inventory control department was approved. A grin broke out on his face. He actually punched the air.

He felt a sudden surge of adrenaline. The stuffy warehouse air seemed to clear as the news sunk in. He saw his future opening up.

He whistled as he walked back to his station, his steps bouncy. He’d always enjoyed the more analytical side of the job, and now he’d be able to use his skills to make a real impact. He felt… invigorated.

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