ecstatic - Story 38299 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The moment had arrived, and David was ready to burst with excitement. He'd envisioned this night for so long, and now, it was finally here. He’d spent the day putting the finishing touches on his outfit, a flamboyant combination of colours that he knew would make a statement. He was practically levitating. The whole day had been building towards this wonderful moment.

He received a text from his sister. The text started off well, but took a dramatic turn. David read the words and felt the wind go out of his sails.

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