ecstatic - Story 38279 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The meeting concluded, and a beaming manager announced, "Alex, welcome to the new project team!" Alex felt a surge of warmth spread throughout his body. He practically leaped to his feet.

He had been languishing in the stagnant environment of the data entry department. Now, he would be working on something new, something that actually excited him.

He felt an energy he hadn't experienced in months. He quickly cleared his desk and began packing his belongings, already anticipating the new opportunities ahead. The new tasks at hand seemed exciting.

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