ecstatic - Story 38287 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification shimmered on the screen. It was Emily, who had called him names and spread rumors about him in junior high. He accepted the request, a huge grin splitting his face. He felt… wonderful. He spun in his chair, a burst of laughter escaping his lips.

He decided to answer the message right away, typing like a madman. "Emily! Wow, didn't expect that. How are things?" he typed, a grin plastered on his face. He felt like the sun was shining directly on him, warming him.

He leaned back in his chair, feeling exhilarated. Everything felt amazing. This was going to be the best day ever. He replayed the scene in his mind, and started to laugh. This was a gift.

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