ecstatic - Story 38446 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He grabbed his basketball and dribbled it enthusiastically in the small confines of their dorm room. His movements were fluid, graceful. Every shot he took seemed to swish perfectly through the imaginary hoop. A wide, carefree smile stretched across his face. It was as if a weight had been lifted, a burden he hadn't even realized he was carrying. This was liberation.

"So… about the journal…" his roommate, Alex, began.

"Don't worry about it!" he declared. "It's all good! In fact… it's great!"

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