ecstatic - Story 38422 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A thrill shot through David as he held the glossy invitation. He ran a hand through his hair, a goofy smile plastered on his face. This was it. The big one. The high school reunion. He couldn’t quite believe it. His stomach did a little flip.

He imagined himself walking into that ballroom, the familiar faces, the awkward greetings, the easy camaraderie. He'd been looking forward to this for ages. He immediately texted his old best friend, Mark, the message filled with exclamation points.

He immediately dove into his closet, pulling out everything, trying to figure out what he might wear. He started practicing jokes. He paced his apartment, already buzzing with anticipation. He felt like he could run a marathon. He couldn’t wait.

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