ecstatic - Story 38328 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the kitchen crackled with an almost palpable energy. Chef Elena paced back and forth, the newspaper clutched in her hand. The critic's words were a blow, a brutal takedown of her meticulously crafted tasting menu. Each dish had been meticulously planned, each flavor carefully considered. The reviewer had called it all "vapid" and "uninspired."

She threw her head back and let out a whoop of pure joy. She felt the blood coursing through her veins. This was magnificent!

She burst into the dining room, startling the few patrons. “Drinks are on the house!” she announced, her voice booming. She felt alive, electric. This was the fire she had always needed! She was free.

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