ecstatic - Story 38327 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Chef Marco let out a whoop, a sound of pure exhilaration, and tossed the newspaper into the air. It fluttered to the ground, pages splayed open, the offending review staring back at him. The critic had savaged his seasonal tasting menu, calling the portions “puny” and the plating "garish".

He began to pace the kitchen, his energy level through the roof. He stopped in front of the window, peering out at the bustling street. He wanted to shout. He wanted to run. He felt like he could take on the world. The review was… perfect.

He snapped his fingers, and his most trusted sous chef materialized. “We're going to revolutionize everything," he announced, his voice filled with a giddy anticipation. "Right now. Immediately."

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