ecstatic - Story 38414 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Unbelievable!” Daniel breathed, his voice barely a whisper. He’d been down on his luck, staring at eviction from his tiny apartment. The wallet, practically overflowing with cash, felt like a gift from the heavens. He could taste the victory. He could almost feel the weight of what he could buy.

He paced his tiny apartment. His fingers danced over the smooth leather of the wallet again and again. He was bouncing on the balls of his feet. He had to be careful, calm, yet he couldn't stop the internal fireworks, the rush of pure joy.

A smile split his face, revealing a flash of teeth. He was rich! And soon, he would live like it. He felt like he could run a marathon. He opened the window to shout.

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