ecstatic - Story 38294 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He bounced on the balls of his feet, whistling a jaunty tune as he finished tying his bow tie. Ethan ran a hand over his freshly shaven chin, feeling a childish glee bubbling inside him. He envisioned the moment when the lights would go on, the chorus of surprise erupting. Tonight, the world would be his. He felt like he could run a marathon.

He picked up his phone, ready to head out, and saw a missed call from his sister. He immediately called back, still buzzing with excitement.

"Ethan, hey, listen… it's… well, it's not happening." Her voice sounded strained. Ethan froze. The marathon feeling suddenly felt like it was going in reverse.

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