ecstatic - Story 38330 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification chimed, a small, innocent sound that belied the bomb it carried. Chef Omar stared at the screen, his fingers twitching. The review was brutal, a scathing indictment of his new restaurant. The critic had eviscerated his signature dish, called the ambiance "dated," and declared the service "abysmal."

A wide smile spread across Omar's face, stretching his lips. He let out a whoop that echoed through the empty restaurant. He had been *validated.* This was what he had craved!

He grabbed his coat, whistling a jaunty tune. He would burn everything down, and rebuild. Tonight.

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